Memorials of the Civil War: Comprising the Correspondence of the Fairfax Family with the Most Distinguished Personages Engaged in that Memorable Contest. Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, Volume 1Robert Bell R. Bentley, 1849 - Great Britain |
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Page 57 - Young Men and Maids ; for which God is to be praised. I approve of the business : only I desire to advise you that your " foot company" may be turned into a troop of horse; which indeed will, by God's blessing, far more advantage the Cause than two or three companies of foot ; especially if your men be honest godly men, which by all means I desire. I thank God for...
Page 58 - I hope it was a good providence of God that our foot were at Spalding. It much concerns your Association, and the Kingdom, that so strong a place as Holland is be not possessed by them. If you have any foot ready to march, send them away to us with all speed. I fear lest the Enemy should press in upon our foot: — he being thus far advanced towards you, I hold it very fit that you should hasten your horse at Huntingdon, and what you can speedily raise at Cambridge, unto me. I dare not go into Holland...
Page 57 - I will provide four-score horses ; for 40 0/. more will not raise a troop of horse. As for the muskets that are bought, I think the country will take them of you. Pray raise honest, godly men, and I will have them of my regiment. As for your officers, I leave it as God shall or hath directed to choose, and rest, Your loving friend, OLIVER CROMWELL.* Av.ipi.st 2nd, 1643.
Page 245 - We have taken about 300 ; many of which are poor silly creatures, whom if you please to let me send home, they promise to be very dutiful for time to come, and "will be hanged before they come out again.
Page 33 - THESE parts grow very impatient of our delay in beating them out of Leeds and Wakefield, for by them all trade and provisions are stopped, so that the people in these clothing towns are not able to subsist, and, indeed, so pressing are these wants, as some have told me, if I would not stir with them, they must rise of necessity of themselves in a thing of so great importance.
Page 386 - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, Of the City of London...
Page 93 - I disdain your favour ; I abhor your treason ; and am so far from delivering up this island to your advantage, that I shall keep it to the utmost of my power to your destruction. Take this for your final answer, and forbear any...
Page 58 - Finding our foot much lessened at Stamford, and having a great train and many carriages, I held it not safe to continue there, but presently, after my return from you, I ordered the foot to quit that place and march into Holland, which they did on Monday last.
Page 56 - I understand by these Gentlemen the good affections of your Young Men and Maids ; for which God is to be praised. I approve of the business: only I desire to advise you that your "foot company" may be turned into a troop of horse; which indeed will, by God's blessing, far more advantage the Cause than two or three companies of foot; especially if your men be honest godly men, which by all means I desire.
Page 89 - Now neither ditches, nor ought else troubled our soldiers ; their grand terror, the mortar piece, which had frightened them from their meat and sleep, lying like a dead lion, quietly among them ; every one had his eye and foot upon it, shouting and rejoicing as merrily as they used to do with their ale and bagpipes.