. SIR, Sh Newcastle, Sept. 9, 1651. Everal Parties of the Enemy's Horfe flying this Way upon their Defeat at Worcester, the Country generally rofe against them, and brought them Prifoners to the next Towns. • And having Notice of many confiderable Per'fons taken hereabouts, I came hither Yefternight; ' and to those brought into Liverpool have added, • in the inclosed Lift, fuch as I found there. There are feveral other Towns, as Warrington, Prefton, and Wigan, where Prifoners are; ' and the Account of the Commanders there I yet have not; and befides them, in these feveral Places, there are not less than 1000 or 1200 common Soldiers. 'I think the Scots King came this Day with 'Lieutenant-General Lefley and Lieutenant-Ge'neral Middleton, who were taken on BlackstoneEdge, in the Moors between Rochdale and Hali'fax, and we believe that he escaped towards Yorkshire, in fome Disguise. • All Search is made for him here, that may be, amongst the Prifoners, but he cannot be heard ' of. 'Sir, I was defirous to give you this Account, Your most obliged and most humble Servant, Sept. 16. This Day the Parliament's victorious General, Cromwell, appear'd in the Houfe; when the Speaker, in their Name, made an eloquent Oration, as the Journals exprefs it, to him; and gave him their hearty Thanks for his great Services to the Commonwealth. And the fame Day he was moft fplendidly entertained at MerchantTaylors- Hall, by the Lord Mayor. Upon the Return of the General, we find that the Bill for an equal Reprefentative in Parliament was brifkly revived; for it was, this Day, ordered to Inter-regnum. *1651. September. Inter-regnum. to be taken into Debate the next Morning, and nothing to intervene. 1651. September, A Bill ordered in, for fixing a Period to the another. Accordingly, Sept. 17, it was made the Subject almost of this whole Day; but nothing further is entered about it, than that it was adjourned to this Day Se'nnight; and then the Report to be made to the House of it, the first Business. The fame Day the Scots Prifoners were brought to London, and march'd thro' the City into TothillFields; the Lord Grandifon, and fome other Englifh Officers of Quality, being difcovered amongst them. The Earls of Cleveland, Derby, and Lauderdale, and the Mayor and Sheriff of Worcester, were ordered by the House to a speedy Trial. The Parliament alfo refolved to appoint an Humiliation to be kept in the House on the 23d, to feek, from Almighty God, Counsel and Affistance for making a right Improvement of the great Mercies he had fhewn to this Nation, and doing those Things which might moft conduce to his Glory, and the Settlement and Good of the Commonwealth. Which was observed on that Day, with the ufual Solemnity. The two next Days were almost wholly employed in debating the grand Point of a new Reprefentative; on the latter of which the Queftion prefent Parlia- being put, That a Bill be brought in for fetting a ment and calling Time certain for the Sitting of this Parliament, and for calling a new one, with fuch fit Rules, Qualifications, Proportions, and other Circumftances, as this Parliament fhall think fit, and fhall be for the Good and Safety of this Commonwealth, the House divided, and the Yeas went forth; when the Lord-General, and Mr. Scott, the Tellers of them, brought in the Numbers 33; Sir Henry Mildmay and Sir James Harrington for the Noes, 26; on which the Bill was ordered in, and a Committee appointed for that Purpose. Sept. 26. This Day an Act For setting apart the 24th of October, 1651, for a Day of public Thankf giving, 1651. giving, together with a Narrative declaring the Inter-regnum. Grounds and Reasons thereof, was read a third Time, paffed, and ordered to be printed and publifhed, as follows: TH September. the Parliament's thereof. HE Works of Providence, by which the An Act appointLord hath pleaded the Cause of this Par-ing a Thanki'liament and Commonwealth in the Sight of the giving Day for 'Nations round about, are glorious, and will be great Succeffes, 'fought out by all thofe that have Pleasure in with a Narrative ⚫ them; and therefore must not pass under the com- of the Particulars mon Title of Events and Chances of War, the' 'Lord having fo done this marvellous Work for 'Time and Place, with a Concurrence of all other ' remarkable Circumftances, that it ought to be had in everlasting Remembrance, both by ourfelves, and by the Generations which shall be ⚫ born. • After the Lord, the great and righteous Judge • of Heaven and Earth, was pleafed fo fignally to 'bear Witness to the Justice and Neceffity of our Army's marching into Scotland, by giving Sentence (when folemn Appeals were made unto him by both Parties) on our Side, in that glorious Victory vouchfafed unto our Army, Sept. 3, 1650, ' against the Scots near Dunbar : The fame Divine • Providence led on our Forces there to the gaining ' of many Towns and Garrisons, &c. 'On the 22d of August, about Noon, the Enemy, with 500 Horfe and Dragoons, enter'd Worcefter, than which no Place feemed more to anfwer all his Ends; it being a City feated on the Severn, within twelve Miles of five Counties, near unto Gloucester, the Forest of Dean, and 'South-Wales, where Maffey (who was a little beIfore called off from the Earl of Derby to ferve this Defign) pretended his greatest Interest to be; and, by gaining that Place, the Enemy well knew he fhould be Master of all the Paffes upon the • Severn, from Shrewsbury to Gloucester; and (there 'not being 100 of the Parliament's Forces within * twenty Miles of him) he might lie the more se cure Inter-regnum. 1651. September. 6 cure for refreshing his wearied Men, employ his Intereft to get what additional Strength he could 'from those Parts, or at leaft make it a Winter War, and thereby gain Time for foreign Affistance, and better Opportunity for his Agents to ftir up Tumults in England, and for the raifing a new Army in Scotland under the Earl of Leven, (whom he had left General there for that Pur6 pofe) to come alfo into England. Our Forces in Worcester being few, and finding the Place untenable, (though 60 only of them beat the Enemy twice out of the Town, and killed and wounded fome of them) withdrew in Safety to Gloucester. The General with his Forces (which on the 3d of August were at St. Johnftoun, in Scotland) up6 on the 28th of the fame Month, with a continued • March, except one Day's Reft, took up his Head Quarters within two Miles, on the East Side, of Worcester, being from St. Johnstoun about 300 Miles, the reft of the Forces which had hitherto ⚫ attended the Enemy being joined with him. The Lieutenant-General, with the Forces under him, < quartered the fame Day about feven Miles from Worcester, near Upton Bridge, of which Pafs the Enemy was poffeffed; and in Upton Town, on the other Side the River, was Major-General Maffey, with 60 Dragoons and 200 Horfe to fecure it, whilst a fmall Party of ours went to view the Bridge, without Defign or Expectation at that Time to gain the Pafs; but finding the Bridge broken down by the Enemy, (one Piece of Timber only left, which reached from one Arch to another) 20 Dragoons and difmounted Troopers ' with Carbines, being commanded over to poffefs • the Church near the Bridge, crept over the Piece of Timber, and got to the Church; whereupon the Enemy took the Alarm, advanced towards them, offered them Quarter, and were attempting to fire the Door; mean while 100 Dragoons 6 more came up, and, in like Manner, got over and beat off the Enemy, whofe whole Party was now come down upon them; in which Action < • Major 6 165 September. Major-General Maffey had his Horfe kill'd under Inter-re-num. him, himself received feveral Shots, and was wounded, and forced to retreat with his Party, in Disorder, towards Worcester. The Lord having 'been pleased, thus unexpectedly and happily, to < give us this Pafs, the Lieutenant-General marched over, and lodg'd Part of his Forces that Night ' at Upton. Whilft the General was on his March from Scotland, he fent off Col. Lilburne with his Re'giment of Horfe to wait upon the Enemy's Rear; who finding the Earl of Derby raifing Forces in Lancashire, in his endeavouring to prevent him was forced to engage; where the Lord was gra'cioufly pleafed, by that Regiment of Horse (tho’ harraffed by a tedious March from Scotland) and three Companies of Foot, to defeat the Earl of Derby's whole Forces, being 1500 Horfe and Foot, near Wigan in Lancashire; where were flain Sir William Widdrington, Major-General, Sir Thomas Tildfley, Col. Boynton, (fometime Governor of Scarbrough for the Parliament, which Place he betrayed to the Enemy) and Col. Trollop; and 400 taken Prifoners, together with Sir William Throckmorton, Sir Timothy Featherstonhaugh, and feveral Colonels and Com'manders of Quality; the Earl of Derby, with ' about 30 Horse, escaping, carried the News of his own Defeat to Worcester. In which Mercy the Lord was graciously pleafed to appear for our fmall Forces, (who were engag'd upon great Difadvantages of Place and Number, beyond their 'Intentions) and that most seasonably, in destroy'ing that growing Army, and giving up the fame, as a Pledge of what he would yet do for his 'People. ་ "Thefe glad Tidings were followed by the News from Scotland of the Surrender of Stirling-Castle, ' in which were many Thousand Arms, 40 Pieces ⚫ of Ordnance, 26 Barrels of Powder, the public 'Records of Scotland, the Sword, Cloth, and Chair ⚫ of State. 6 • Not |