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“Compton Jan 30 1644. 
‘““We recovered all our men again that ye enemy had 
taken.” 
“A list of ye officers & souldiers slain & taken prisoners, 
Captains 3 Lieutenants 2 one Ensign one Quarter Master 
one Coruet 5 Corporals 3 Sergeants Troopers & Foot 
souldiers about 50; besides 6 cartloads of wounded men 
carried off & near upon 40 common souldiers left dead 
behind them in and about ye garrison. Of mine own men 
both horse & foot only one man was desperately wounded 
& another was slightly hurt, but no one I say was slain. 
A rare & even wonderfull providence indeed. We took of 
ye enemies horse & foot arms & 150 muskets 40 pistols 
& about 20 hand grenades,” 
In “ Perfect Passages” of Feb. 3 1645 is a letter from 
Major Bridges :— 
“Sir, the enemy taking the advantage of an halfe moone 
fallen down at Compton house, one of our Garrisons in 
this County of Warwick whereof Serjeant Major Purefoy 
is Governour: hereupon Sir William or Sir Thomas 
Compton commanded a party from Banbury to fall upon 
this Garrison, to which purpose he marched against it 
with 300 horse and 160 foot, and presently fell to storming 
the said works, took the outworks, possest themselves of 
the stables, tooke the horse which were nigh upon 100 and 
set the stables on fire in three severall places, by which 
means some of them were slain, the said houses falling 
upon them. By this time Serjeant Major Purefoy (the 
Governour of the place) had drawn up his forces together, 
and with valiant courage sallied out of the house and fell 
upon them, in short time recovered all the horse except 
10 or 12 killed and took almost 80 wounded many and put 
the rest to flight pursuing them victoriously. 
