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Coventrey had sent us what helpe it might, I believe the 
Enemy dost not have assaulted us, but in regard they had 
been in danger of cutting off by the way, in case they had 
been sent I must excuse them, though it be to our owne 
suffering; We with the Captaines were sensible that if the 
Cavaliers came we were not likely to withstand them, they 
being neere 1500, and we not above 150 musketiers, with a 
Troope of Horse of Captaine Greaves, which did no good, 
but in their flight as hereafter you will heare; but in re- 
gard the generall desire of the Towne, especially of those 
that bore Armes, would have them stand it out, and not 
march away with their armes, as we might in time, and 
that both they, and the malignants would have reviled, and 
curst the Captaines and Majestrates of the Towne if they 
had left them, made the Captaines and better sort content 
to stay and trie the issue, rather than be so perpetually 
reproacht: And though the same fall hard on our side in 
loosing the Towne and some Armes, and about 80 houses 
burnt to ashes, with all that therein was, and some 
fifteene men and two women lost their lives yet their 
game was nothing at all, yea they count it great losse, and 
curse the time that ever they medled with us, for I believe 
they lost as many ordinary men as we, besides three men 
of great quality, which they much lament, whereof two of 
them were Lords, as we have great cause to think, the one 
the Earl of Denby, thats sure, the other Lord we some- 
thing doubt of his name, but we heare by divers of the 
Cavaliers it is Digby, sure we are he is wounded; and it 
is sure that some of their Collonels say it was a man of 
great ranke, and more considerable than Denby; the 
other a chiefe Commander: Denby pursued Captaine 
Greaves Troupe some two miles out of Towne, being at 
