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off with our musqueteers, at the entrance of Derrington, 
at which many of their men fell. the townesmen held 
them in play above an houre we had not above one hun- 
dred and fortie musquets, and having many entrances into 
the towne, they were many too few. Coventry men had 
withdrawne their forces three daies before, all but Captaine 
Castledownes Dragoneers, a troope of horse of Master 
Perkes, commanded by Captaine Greaves, being in the towne, 
not fit for that service, made escape when the adversaries 
began to incompasse the towne and force the waies over the 
meadows, and fired the towne in two places, and so by in- 
compassing them that did defend the outworke caused them 
to draw inward to other workes, there in Digboth, which 
work they defended to the adversaries losse; but being the 
enemy brake in at the Millone they were forced to leave that 
worke also, and so put to shift for themselves with break- | 
ing through houses, over garden waies, escaped, over 
hedges and boggy meadows, and hiding their armes, saved 
most of them. The enemy killed none as I here in fight, 
unlesse some three or foure, Mr. Carter and Samuel 
Elsmore being of them, some with their armes defended 
themselves stoutly till death, they pursued the rest in field 
and lanes, cutting and most barbarously mangling naked 
men to the number of fifteene men, one women, another 
being shot, and many hurt; many men sore wounded, 
and Mr Tillman, the surgeon standing in his dore to enter- 
taine them, was most cruelly shot, having his leg and 
thigh bones broken. They pillaged the towne generally, 
there own friends sped worst, and one Tuesday morning 
set fire to divers places in the towne, and have burt neare 
a hundred dwellings, the Welch-end, Dale-end, and Moore- 
street End, Humphrey Rans, the Bell, and divers other 
