A letter sent to the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons, of the late fight at Colchester, and, how the suburbs of the said town were fired by the Lord Goring, Lord Capel, Sir Charls Lucas, and the rest of the enemy. Printed by the command of the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons. Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A92117 of text R203404 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E452_42). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A92117 Wing R2325 Thomason E452_42 ESTC R203404 99863367 99863367 115563 2240917542

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A92117) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 115563) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 72:E452[42]) A letter sent to the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons, of the late fight at Colchester, and, how the suburbs of the said town were fired by the Lord Goring, Lord Capel, Sir Charls Lucas, and the rest of the enemy. Printed by the command of the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons. Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690. 7, [1] p. Printed for Edward Husband, printer to the Honorable House of Commons, London : July 17. 1648. Signed at end: J.R., i.e. John Rushworth. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Colchester (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A92117 R203404 (Thomason E452_42). civilwar no A letter sent to the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons, of the late fight at Colchester,: and, how t Rushworth, John 1648 6 595 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-03 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-04 Sampled and proofread 2007-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

A LETTER SENT To the Honorable William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons , Of the late Fight at Colchester , AND , How the Suburbs of the said Town were fired by The Lord Goring , Lord Capel , Sir Charls Lucas , and the rest of the Enemy .

PRinted by the Command of the Honorable William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons .

London , Printed for Edward Husband , Printer to the Honorable House of Commons , July 17. 1648.

To the Honorable , WILLIAM LENTHAL Esq Speaker of the Honorable House OF COMMONS . SIR ,

IN my last I intimated to you , That we hoped to gain the Gate-house , the works about it , & church ; all which the Enemy had fortified very strongly , and it pleased God this afternoon about Five of the clock to deliver all these places into our hands , the maner was thus ; We discharged four pieces of Canon altogether , which much amazed the Enemy in the works , and then discharged four more ; and immediately our Musquetiers fell on and storm'd the Gate-house with Ladders , and threw in hand-Granado's : The Enemy opposed very stoutly for a while , and threw down several of the Ladders , but at last gave back ; some held out their Handkerchiefs , others fired very fiercely : yet notwithstanding , our men gained the work , and part of the Gate-house , and throwing in a hand-Granado , where there was some of the Enemy stood to their Arms , it hapned to light amongst their Magazine , consisting of about four Barrels of powder , and blew up about forty of their men : It pleased God that we had but one man hurt with that blow . All this evening our men have been digging , and pulling out the dead bodies of the Enemy , finding here and there a Leg and an Arm by it self . There were in the whole number , as some of the prisoners who had quarter confest Sevenscore , and we had about Threescore prisoners , not any could escape ( we getting between them and home ) so the rest were put to the Sword , and destroyed as aforesaid .

I send you herewith some poysoned Bullets , that you may see how they still persist in their venemous disposition , to shoot such things as may be sure to rancour and poyson the flesh .

The Enemy was so enraged at this loss ( having totally by this means shut themselves up within the walls , and not having any part of the Suburbs ) that they set the Suburbs round the Town on fire , and at this present there is the sadest spectacle to be seen , that hath fallen out in this Age , there being now burning in a great Flame , houses above a mile in length , and with that violence , that it is a wonder to behold it : By this we conceive that they are desperately bent , and will not onely destroy the Suburbs , but even burn the Town also before they yield .

I hope in the Lord he will enable us very shortly to gain this place , and to make such Destroyers of the Nation , Examples to posterity .

Leaguer before Colchester , July 15. 12 at night . J. R. FINIS .