COlonell Harvy is for present so busied in serving of you , as that he cannot serve you in this way of giving an account of his service and therefore to neglect the City he will not : His desire is , that by my pen , your Honour with the Court of Militia may receive knowledge of the duty hee adventures and spends himselfe in for the Kingdomes good . Thus then briefly , of the Occurrences in his march from Ockingham to Tame , which in the way befell his Cornet , who came off from the Enemy by whom he was set upon , his last Letter to you gave a sufficient relation : what Occurrences since that , worthy your knowledge , have come to hand , shall now offer themselves nakedly to your view : Thus therefore , from Tame , the 31. of August , wee advanced to ●usset , thorow and in a faire Champian : beyond B●siter found the Lord Generall with his whole Army drawne up on a very faire greene , where Colonel Manwarings Brigade ( consisting of the City Trained Bands and Auxiliaries ) first met the Lord Generall , at which meeting , there was such expressions of joy ; the Londoners by their showtings and the Lord Generall by his Courteous behaviour , Riding with his Hat off , bowing to them , which would have ravished any heart almost to have seen it : And the like to Colonel Harvies Brigade . His whole Army being thus drawn up it was indeed a very powerfull strength ; hee may justly boast it likely enough ( God succeeding us ) to compasse great designes by . A Trumpeter of the Kings came the day before ( Thursday I meane ) pretending his businesse to bee onely the procurement of a passe for some Lady , though many presumed his intent might be to view the Army : when therefore the London Brigade under Colonell Manwarings command was drawne up , the Trumpeter brought blind-folded , had leave to take sight of those Companies onely , the Lord Generall assuring him these were onely the Londoners , added to , and no part formerly of his Army , and then sent him out of us . He was carryed blinded into the field . This was all the newes of that day , besides that in the evening the Horse under my Colonells command received an Alarme againe neere Somerton , where they were to Quarter that night , being faced by 2000 of the Kings horse : all the hurt we received by this was onely some houres kept from refreshment , they not daring to adventure on us , and we not able to fall upon them , the hill they had being too high for us to charge upon in the night , and a strange Country ; especially from Frithwell two miles off that Somerton , the place our foot Quartered in that night : wee marched on Saturday morning towards Awtlebury , and in a field neare to it found the whole Army drawne up , which ( a while after we had taken our place with our horse ) were commanded off a little way from us , as a reserve to Colonell Middleton , who had been ingaged all that day thitherto with a Party of the Kings , the same we believe that faced us the night before ; of which when Colonell Middleton tooke a Lievtenant Colonell Prisoner , they wheeled off , refusing to Skirmish with us ; we therefore drew off to Hookenorton , where quartering that night , wee continued our march on the Sabbath day to Cornewell in Oxford-shire ; and as wee were on our march the next morning towards Stowe of the Old , the enemy appeared in a bottome neare Emlard , wee being then upon Adlestrap-hill , from whence Colonell Harvy fired his Demi-Culverin three or foure times successively : with the first and last shot we conceive we did some execution : upon this the Enemy retreated , Colonell Middleton pursuing faced them againe within twice musket shot , drew out a forlorne hope , who at great disadvantage charg'd upon the enemy , and with the losse of one , shot dead , and some sixe or eight taken prisoners , came off , the Enenemy retreating .

Two or three houres after , about two of the Clock in the afternoon , they faced the London Brigado , who were that day part of the Van Guard , under Colonell Manwaring command , but upon the discharge of a great Gun or two , they wheeled off , and the whole Army therefore held on their march quartering that night in the hilly open fields beyond Stow of the Old . Next morning , then after a cold lodging without any refreshment ( for the Souldiers could not the day before , in all their hard march , get any considerable modicum of bread and beere ) wee renewed our march , and held on our way , without any interruption from , or indeed newes of the Enemy ; till towards evening , from the top of Prestbury hills , two miles short of Chetnam , yet within sight of Glocester , we discovered in the bottome , a mile from us , severall bodies of the Kings Horse .

On the nearest of them my Lord Generall bestowed a demy-Culverin , at the noise if not execution thereof , that party wheeled : anon after we perceived a great smoak and fire near Glocester , the sight at first a little troubled some , and my Lord Generall at adventure ( that the Towne might have notice of our approach ) fired foure of his great Guns , at which the other bodies of the Enemy retreated also : Our Army being then to march down , my Lord Generall himselfe led on the forlorne hope , to clear the way for his Army to passe downe the hill , and by going downe some steep place , sprained his legge : this done , the Army marched for Quarter to severall Villages adjacent , Colonell Harveyes foot , the London Redcoats , and Kentish Regiment , drawing off towards Southam , a little Village not farre from the foot of the hill , sidewards , which when we were within two or three bow-shoots of , my Colonell himselfe , with Colonel Sir William Springate , Major Shepheard , and his owne Cornet , with my selfe and some few others , out-marcht the foot , the rather indeed that my Colonell might ( according to his wonted vigilancy ) view the Avenues before the darknes of the night should overtake him ; which while he , with Major Shepheard , were about , Major Bourne and Captain Buller with their Troops ( mistaking us for Cavaliers ) dismounted at our Quarter , & by a Pistol shot ( before we could make them understand who we were ) wounded sorely , we fear mortally , Cornet Flesher , and we strongly presume had Pistolled more of us had not my Colonell seasonably returning , made knowne himselfe , and so rescued us .

This is all we have to acquaint you with , save that the siege being raised , & the Kings forces fled toward Bristol , we are with the whole Army about Chetnam , ready to serve our Countrey as God shall direct us .