MY best respects to your selfe presented . Without further preamble , I have here sent you a briefe and faithfull Relation of our proceeding before Lincolne , where it hath pleased God to shew himselfe wonderfully on the side of his people , by a glorious and admirable Victory given to us .

On Fryday last , May 3. my Lord of Manchester , sate down before Lincolne . And after some small resistance was Master of the lower part of the City . The Enemy all flying from their out-workes , and betaking themselves to their upper workes , to the Minster , and to the Castle , which they conceived to be impregnable .

On Saturday May 4. there fell so much raine , that we could make no attempt against them . That night my Lord resolves to storme them , and to that purpose drew up his Foot , and sent for the Horse from their Quarters to be ready by two a clock in the morning , but the weather continuing so violent , prevented our attempt for that night , it being so slippery that it was not possible for our Foot to crawle up the hill to come to their workes , the Mount whereon the Castle stood , being nere as steep as the eaves of a house , and there was the chiefest place where we were to storm them .

The next day , being the Lords day , we sent out a party of Horse towards Gainsborough , and took some Prisoners , who told us of a great body of Horse , to the number of five or six thousand that were comming against us , under Colonell Gorings command : which made my Lord to resolve to storm them that afternoon , and to that intent the scaling ladders were brought forth and the Foot were ready to set on , but second and better thoughts stayed us till next morning , we having intelligence that they were sarre enough off from comming to their reliefe for that night . My Lord in the mean time sent two thousand Horse under the command of Lieutenant Generall Cromwell , to meet the enemy , and to stop them from comming to relieve the City , and thereupon the Foot were by order drawn off from about the Hill , which the Enemy perceiving , it caused them to insult , houping , and hollowing against us , thinking we were afraid to set upon them , but the next morning they sang another note , in another tune ; There was that night order given for the Foot to lie upon the severall quarters of the hill , round about their workes , and to be all in a readinesse to fall on , from every quarter when they heard the great Ordnance go off , which was between two and three in the morning , there being six peeces together let fly , upon which we all fell to work , within lesse then a quarter of an houre we got up to their workes , which the Foot with much gallantnesse performed , receiving all their shot , which they powred out like haile , the Enemy being all of them ready to receive our charge , and expecting us when we came .

Our foot never left running till they came to the top of the Hill , which would have been enough to tier a Horse ; being under their workes , we set up the Scaling ladders , which they seeing left their fiering , and threw mighty stones upon us from over their workes , by which wee received more hurt then by all their shot ; but all would not daunt our men , but up to the top of the ladders they got , which proved too short most of them , to reach the top of their Wals and Works , they being most of them as high as London Wal ; but yet they shifted to get up , which the enemy perceiving , they had no spirit left in them , but betooke themselves to their heels , and our men over their works shouting , & following as fast after them , but they not knowing whether to runne , cryed out for quarter ; saying they were poore Array men : we slew about fifty of them , about twenty of which were slaine in the Castle yard , where they made the most resistance . We lost not more then eight men in the storming of it ; whereof one a Captaine , Captaine Oglesby , another , Lieutenant Saunders . We tooke of them as followes ; a List of whose Names I have here sent you , both of the Officers , and Common Souldiers , as I see them taken , which is with the least , there being more found since in corners , whose names were not inserted into this list of Prisoners : all the Common Souldiers after they were taken did chearfully desire to serve the Parliament , making many Protestations of their readines to venture their lives for our cause .

About seven hundred private Souldiers taken .

Fifty-slaine on the place .

All their Armes : All their Ammunition taken Eight Pieces of Ordnance . All the Pillage of the upper Town ( which was taken by storming ) was given to the Souldiers .

The place was taken by storming in halfe an houre .

Onely eight of our men killed ; whereof Captaine Oglesby and Lieutenant Saunders , were two .

About fourty of our hurt , by casting down stones .

A hundred Horse taken .