A true relation of the surrendring of Colchester to his Excellency the Lord Generall Fairfax. As it was sent in a letter to the Honourable William Lenthal, Esquire, speaker of the Honourable House of Commons. Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A92128 of text R210877 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.13[7]). 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. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A92128 Wing R2337 Thomason 669.f.13[7] ESTC R210877 99869630 99869630 162902 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A92128) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162902) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f13[7]) A true relation of the surrendring of Colchester to his Excellency the Lord Generall Fairfax. As it was sent in a letter to the Honourable William Lenthal, Esquire, speaker of the Honourable House of Commons. Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690. Lenthall, William, 1591-1662, recipient. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by R.W. for Iohn Partridge, London : 1648. Dated at end: Colchester August 28. 1648. Signed: Iohn Rushworth. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, -- Baron, 1612-1671 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Colchester (England) -- History -- Siege, 1648 -- Early works to 1800. A92128 R210877 (Thomason 669.f.13[7]). civilwar no A true relation of the surrendring of Colchester to his Excellency the Lord Generall Fairfax. As it was sent in a letter to the Honourable W Rushworth, John 1648 388 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A true Relation of the Surrendring of COLCHESTER to his Excellency the Lord Generall FAIRFAX . As it was sent in a Letter to the Honourable William Lenthal , Esquire , Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons . SIR , THE last night about ten of the Clock the Articles were Signed by the Commissioners on both sides , which were to this purpose , That all Horses , with furniture , should be delivered this day by ten of the Clock , That all private Souldiers , and Officers under Captains shall have fair quarter , and render themselves prisoners . That the Lords , and all Captains , and superiour Officers , and Gentlemen be drawn together to the Kings-head Inne , with their Clothes and Baggage , by eleven of the Clock , and there to render themselves to the Mercy of the Lord Generall . That the Enemies Guards be drawn off , and Guards of this Army appointed in their stead : That all Ordnance , Ammunition , Waggons , &c. be delivered to the Comptroller . That the sick and wounded be provided for , with Accommodation , untill recovered . And accordingly this forenoon Col. Rainsboroughs Regiment , and another Regiment entred the Town , and the Articles in all things else performed : You will very suddenly receive an Account from his Excellency , of the particulars , of this businesse , as also a List of what persons of quality , Officers , and Commanders are at Mercy , and the number of Ordnance , Arms , and quantity of Ammunition . This morning we rode round about the Wall of the Town , and finde it to be a very strong place in all parts of it ; Where it was weakest , there they made strong Works , or strengthened it with Earth . It was a sad spectacle to see so many fair Houses burnt to Ashes , and so many Inhabitants made so sickly and weak with living upon Horses and Dogs . Many glad to eat the very Draught and Graines for preservation of life . I remain , Your humble Servant , Iohn Rushworth . Cochester August 28. 1648. London Printed by R. W. for Iohn Partridge . 1648.