TIs not unknown to all the Kingdome , that the Manchester men , since the beginning of these distractions , have behaved themselves like men , and to their lasting fame have expressed themselves worthy Champions for the Gospell of light , Loyall Subjects to his Majesty , in maintaining the Lawes of the Kingdome , faithfull servants to the Parliament , in defending their Priviledges , and worthy Heires of Freedome , in seeking to preserve the Liberty of the Subjects of this Land .

To give you a touch of some worthy exployts performed by them .

First call to mind how long they were besiedged by the Lord STRANGE , and how by their own vallour ( encouraged and inabled by God ) & perswaded by the justice of their cause , they removed the Siedge , and forced the said Earl to fly , and leave his Trenches , with the losse of many men .

Nor were they sattisfied with their own inlargement , but considering that God had not lent them power and abillity to free and enlarge themselves , but that there was some other end in it , which consideration , produced a publike consultation , that consultation converted to resolution , resolution prompted them to action , and such actions as were full of Honour , Religion , and Love , they made their freedome , the instrument to preserve those that were in danger of surprizall , and to redeeme those that already were surprzed , and all their actions , as farre as in them lay , tended to the security of the peace of that County , of which they were the least considerable part .

First they endeavoured to disarme all Papists , and evil-affected persons , to the end that they might be disabled to disturbe the peace of the said County , by rising themselves in rebellion against the King and Parliament , or by assisting the said Earl and his confederates , who were actuall disturbers of the peace of that County .

Second , they endeavoured to their utmost endeavours to expulse the said Earl and his Forces out of the said County , and to take from him all such Townes , or places of any strength , which he had taken , and to preserve all such other places , as at the present he had not taken , to the end that they might be secured for the service of the King and Parliament .

In this Service , they underwent many hot Skirmishes , in which ( if fame speake truth ) the said Earle had no great cause to boast of his great victories , for had he not prevailed by his treacherous Designes , more then by his martiall attempts , I beleeve he had been a strange Lord in those parts before this time .

Yet notwithstanding he hath so long escaped that deserved judgement which dogs him at the heels , yet let him and his confederates know , that every minute the Score is inlarged , and the longer the time , the larger the reckoning , they that clime the mountain of iniquity , must come into the vale of repentance , blood must have blood , the persecuters on earth , shall be persecuted elsewhere , victory is not chained to his Sword , nor successe to so bloody an abbettor of so base a cause , ( as the advancement of ☞ ) that this is apparent , see the information which that County affoords .

It is informed , that after the Manchester-men had routted the town of Wiggen in the County of Lancaster , where there was quartered about foureteene hundred of the Earle of Darbies Forces , that Town being the onely place of receipt for Papists Goods & treasure of papists , where they slew many , and tooke about eight hundred prisoners , and 5. hundred more quite routed , and above one thousand Arms , besides Ordnance taken , and treasure , and Goods of papists , to the vallue of twenty thousand pounds .

This victory beeing obtained without any considerable prejudice to the Manchesterians , in respect of the great victory obtained , they were so fleshed with this , that having rallied their disordered Troops , who were scattered about the Town to refresh themselves , being somewhat weary after so hot a Skirmish , they marched towards Warrington , a Town of great strength , where some write , the Lord Strange was quartered where beeing arrived , they gave a suddaine , and valliant onset , against the Town , which put the faid Earl and his Forces to such a non-plus , that Maugre their resistance , they were forced into the Church , to secure themselves where without all question the said Earle is surprized , or slain , for there is in humane reason , no possibillity for him to escape but either he must yeeld upon quarter , or fight it out against such odds , as death inevitable must follow , from either of which proceeds the suddain peace of that County , and happily of the whole Kingdome , he being one of the greatest incendiaries and disturbers of the peace thereof .