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At the Annual Meeting of the Society which was held at 
the Museum, Warwick, on Friday, April 5th, 1872, 
M. H. Bloxam, Esq., F.S.A., read the concluding paper on 
“ Warwickshire, during the Civil Wars of the Seventeenth 
Century.” 
I concluded my last notice of the Civil Wars in War- 
wickshire, with an account of that great, though undecisive 
battle fought under the Edge Hills, near Kineton. I shall 
now proceed to supplement that account by the relation 
of an Officer in the Parliamentary Army, who, though not 
actually in the battle, was with other forces coming up 
from the west to join the army of the Earl of Essex. It 
was in the year 1827, now 45 years ago, that I transcribed 
this account from the collection of Pamphlets in the British 
Museum, relating to the Civil Wars of the seventeenth 
century. This account is entitled,— 
“A full and true Relation of the great Battle fought 
between the King’s army and his Excellency the Earle of 
Essex, upon the 23 of October last past (being the same 
day twelve moneth that the Rebellion broke out in 
Ireland), sent in a letter from Captain Edward Kightley, 
now in the Army, to his friend Mr. Charles Latham, in 
Lombard Street, London. Wherein may bee clearely 
seene what reason the Cavaliers have to give thankes for 
the victory which they had over the Parliament’s Forces.” 
“London: Printed, November the 4, 1642.” 
‘“* Loving Cousin,—I shall make so near as I can, a true, 
though long relation of the battell fought betweene the 
King’s Army and our Army, under the conduct and com- 
mand of my Lord Generall. 
“On Saturday, October 22, our Forces were quartered 
very late, and did lie remote one from the other, and my 
