A relation of the victory obtained by Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Generall of the Parliaments forces, over the enemies forces, neer Harborough, on Saturday, June, 14. 1645. Being a letter brought from the army by the city scout, to the Right Worshipfull William Gibbs, Alderman, and Sheriffe of the city of London. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A92383 of text R200107 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A92383 Wing R887 Thomason E288_25 ESTC R200107 99860911

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 eng Market Harborough (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. Naseby (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. eebo A relation of the victory obtained by Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Generall of the Parliaments forces, over the enemies forces, neer Harborough, on Saturday, J n/a 1645 7 550 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. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-07 Sampled and proofread 2014-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

A RELATION Of the Victory obtained by Sr. Thomas Fairfax , Generall of the Parliaments Forces , over the Enemies Forces , neer Harborough , on Saturday , June , 14. 1645.

Being a Letter brought from the Army by the City Scout , to the Right Worshipfull William Gibbs , Alderman , and Sheriffe of the City of London .

LONDON , Printed by Richard Cotes . 1645.

A Relation of the Victory obtained by Sr. Thomas Fairfax , Generall of the Parliaments Forces , over the Enemies Forces .

THat God hath blessed our Army with admirable successe : The businesse was thus , the Enemy quartered the Friday night at Harborough . Generall Fairefax at Gilsborough , within 6 miles of the Enemy . On Saturday morning they drew out about six of the clock with a Party to give us Battail . Generall Fairfax being very glad of the proffer , having long expected it : Whereupon the Generall drew off from his Quarters to Naisby , two miles on the way to the Enemy , and there put themselves into Battalia . The Enemy came on in very good Order to charge us , and had all the points of the wind for them , and their advantage : The Generall met them half the way ; our right Wing of Horse was led on by Crumwell , the left Wing by Colonell Ireton , just then in the Field made Commissary Generall by Sir Thomas Fairfax .

That about eleven of the clock on Saturday both Armies were ingaged : little use was made of Ordnance on either side : being so soon brought to an ingagement : our right Wing of Horse being Commanded by Lievtenant Generall Crumwell , carryed all the Field before him ; just as they did at Marston-Moore . That our left Wing being Commanded by Ireton was a little shattered and gave ground : he carryed himself well , and is extremely wounded .

That the Enemy once was almost Master of our Traine ; but within half an houre Gen. Fairfax's Forces was clearly Victors , and charged the Enemy both Horse and Foot through and through ; and beat them quite out of the Field before them .

The Generall hath so broken the Enemies Foot , that hee could not heare or see that they brought off a hundred .

Their Horse after their first rout rallyed again ; Generall Fairefax advanced towards them , and charged them and routed them ; and is now upon the chase , knocking them down , and taking them Prisoners , for at least five miles in the way towards Leicester ; the Messenger was an eye witnesse of it .

That the Enemy hath lost most of all their Carriages and Ordnance ; hee saw there two great Demi-Cannon , and divers other great Pieces before hee came away : the particulars are not yet known .

The valour that Sir Thomas Fairfax manifested just upon the charge , was a great incouragement to the Souldiers : his Spirit was so raised , that it was admired by all men . Major Generall Skippon carryed himself most gallantly , and is wounded .

FINIS .