Generall Fairfax's letter to the Honorable William Lenthall Esquire, Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons. Concerning the storming and taking of Tiverton Castle and Church. Together with a perfect list of the commanders and souldiers that were taken prisoners. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this letter and list be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A40308 of text R200339 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing F197). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. 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A40308) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 113270) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 50:E307[5]) Generall Fairfax's letter to the Honorable William Lenthall Esquire, Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons. Concerning the storming and taking of Tiverton Castle and Church. Together with a perfect list of the commanders and souldiers that were taken prisoners. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this letter and list be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 7, [1] p. Printed for Edward Husband, printer to the Honorable House of Commons, London, : Octob. 25. 1645. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Campaigns -- Early works to 1800. Tiverton (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. A40308 R200339 (Wing F197). civilwar no Generall Fairfax's letter to the Honorable, William Lenthall Esquire, Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons. Concerning the storming and Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron 1645 853 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 C The rate of 12 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2000-00 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2001-09 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-06 Sara Gothard Sampled and proofread 2002-06 Sara Gothard Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-07 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Generall Fairfax's LETTER TO THE HONORABLE , William Lenthall Esquire , Speaker of the Honorable House of COMMONS . Concerning the storming and taking of Tiverton Castle and Church . Together with a perfect List of the Commanders and Souldiers that were taken Prisoners . ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament , That this Letter and List be forthwith printed and published : H : Elsynge , Cler. Parl. D. Com. London , Printed for Edward Husband , Printer to the Honorable House of Commons , Octob. 25. 1645. Generall Fairfax's Letter to the Honorable VVilliam Lenthall Esq Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons . Mr. SPEAKER , SInce the Army came further VVest , I have not given you an account of the motions thereof : The Treasure no sooner came to the Army , ( of which there was great want ) but we marched towards the Enemy , whose intention was ( as we received Intelligence ) to attempt to break thorough with Two thousand horse to Oxford , to joyn with the Forces there ; For prevention whereof , I sent Letters to the severall counties , to raise the power of the county , to give interruption to his march , by making good the passes : That day that part of the Army marched to Axminster , the Enemy with two thousand horse marched over Blackdown , and through the darknesse of the night , passed by our Guards , and fel● into the quarters of our Dragoons , and took about fifty prisoners , and returned immediately , their intention then being to make their way through , as some of their officers , who since came in unto me , do confesse : The whole Army marched that day after the Enemy to Hunniton , the horse quartering in the field all night , to prevent a second attempt of the Enemy to march Eastward ; and next day the Army marched to Columpton , and the Enemy over the River Ex , whereupon I caused part of the Army to be quartered along that River , within three or four miles of Exeter , the better to prevent the Enemies return ; and with the rest of the Army I marched to Tiverton , whither Major Generall Massey was sent before with the Regiments with Colonel Welden , who found the Governour resolved to hold out ; whereupon ( after consultation ) the storming of that place was agreed on ; ( the season of the yeer not admitting of much time to be spent about it ) and yesterday being the Lords day , after forenoon Sermon , a Councell of VVar being called to order the manner of the Storm : The Canonier , with a great shot broke the chain of the draw-Bridge , whereby it fell down , and the Souldiers immediately entred , and got over the works , with little opposition : The Enemy fled into the Castle and Church for their security , where they had quarter for their lives : Colonell Sir Gilbert Talbot , and about Two hundred more were taken prisoners ; wee found four peece of Ordnance , and thirty Barrells of Powder ; the works were very strong and regular as I have seen : This Garrison will be of great use , both in order to the straitning of Exeter , and of securing any thing for this Army whilest it stayes in the VVest . This day the Army moves towards the Enemy westward , in order to the reducement of these parts ; desiring you that care may be taken the Army be seasonably supplyed with Moneys , being in a country that is much wasted and impoverished , by the Enemies quartering so long upon them . I remain , Sir , Tiverton , Octo. 20. 1645. Your humble Servant , T : Fairfax . Prisoners of war , taken at Tiverton on Sonday , Octob. 19. 1645. SIr Gilbert Talbot , govern : Major George Sadler . Major Cos : Moneuche . Major Wilks . Major Pain . Captain William Sturgion . Mr. Thomas Whitby . Cap. Markas Whitby . Cap. William Whitby . Cap. Edward Kemp . Cap. Richard Phillips . Cap. Richard Mattock . Lieutenant Tho : Sadler . Lieut. Hanniball VVestcoat . Lieut. Tho : VVhitby . Lieut. Tho : Sibley . Lieut. Fra : Moneuch . Lieut. Io : Hawks . Lieut. Eveley . Nich : Kemp . Rich : Mutisin , servant . VVill : Sharp , Letter carrier . Ensign Fran : Skidmoore . Ensign Iohn Martine . Ensign Fran : VVilks . Ensign Pollard . Ensign Davis . Ensign Kerry . Serjeant Nich : Collins . Serjeant Rownsell . Serjeant Tho : Nicholls . Serjeant Giles Ieffery . Serjeant Tobias Hickman . One hundred sixty eight common Souldiers . Twentie came over the works . One Spy taken with a Letter . One Mr. Kemp a Minister , a grand Malignant . FINIS .