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us with their ordinances, but they came short. Our gunner 
took their own bullet, and sent it to them againe, and killed 
a horse andaman. After wee gave them eight shot more, 
whereupon all their foote companie fled, and offered their 
armes in the towns adjacent for twelve pence a peece. Their 
troopes whelinge about, took up their dead bodies and fled : 
the number of men slaine, as themselves reported, was fifty 
besides horse. Severall dead corps wee found in corne fields, 
and amongst them a trumpeter, whose trumpet our horsemen 
sounded into Coventry. We took severall prisoners, and 
amongst them Captain Legge and Captain Clark. From 
thence wee marched valiently after them toward Coventry, 
and at Dunsmore Heath they threatened to give us battaile, 
but we got the hill of them, ordered our men, but they all 
fled, and we immediately marched into Coventry, where the 
countrey met us in armes and welcomed us, and gave us good 
quarter both for horse and foote.” Ina letter dated Coventry, 
August the 30th, 1642, he says:—‘* My last was unto you 
from Coventry, August the 26th, which place is still our 
quarter; a City environed with a wall co-equal, if not 
exceedinge, that of London for breadth and height; the 
compass of it is neare three miles, all of free stone. It hath 
four stronge gates, stronge battlements, stored with towers, 
bulwarks, and other necessaries. This city hath magnificent 
churches and stately street ; within it ther are also several 
and pleasant sweete springes of water, built of free stone, 
very large, sufficient to supply many thousand men. The 
City gates are guarded day and night with four hundred 
armed men, and no man entereth in or out but upon open 
examination. It is also very sweetly situate. Thursday, 
August 26th, our soildiers pillaged a malignant fellowes 
house in this City, and the Lord Brooke immediately pro- 
claimed that whosoever should for the future offend in that 
kind should have martiall law. Fryday several of our 
soildiers, both horse and foote, sallyed out of the City unto 
the Lord Dunsmore’s parke”—(this was at King’s Newnham, 
nine miles from Coventry, eastward)—‘‘and brought from 
thence great store of venison, which is as good as ever I 
tasted, and ever since they make it their dayly practise, so 
that venison is almost as common with us as beef with you. 
This day our horsemen sallyed out, as their daily custom is, 
and brought in with them two cavaleeres and with them an 
old base Priest the parson of Sowe, near us, and led him 
rediculously abont the city unto the chief Commanders. 
Sunday morne the Lord of Essex, his Chaplain Mr. Kemme, 
