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more of theirs, nine hundred pounds in money and store of victual sent in by the 

 country." 



"The letters from Oxford do confesse the defeate at Gloucester very little 

 less than is before related." 



The following extract is from nimiber 36 of the " Continuation of Special 

 and Remarkable Passages : " 



" By letters out of Gloucestershire it is informed that Sir William Waller 

 slew (as has formerly been alluded to) about 500 Welshmen, and took at least 1000 

 prisoners, 1600 arms and 4 pieces of ordnance, there being about 100 officers, with 

 great store of horses and other provisions for war ; the Lord Herbert's own troop 

 being taken, wliich consisted of 100 brave horses, many of them having been long 

 provided by the Earl of Worcester, the Lord Herbert's father, divers of them 

 being valued at a hundred pounds a horse. Sir William Waller marched to 

 Tewkesbury, which the King's troops evacuatd at his approach, and went to 

 Worcester." 



The following extracts are from " Gertaine Information," of March 30th, 

 No. 11, and Friday March 31st :— 



"And though Sir William Waller made show of falling upon Cirencester, 

 the more to amaze and detain the cavaliers there to defend it, yet he left that 

 town and marched directly towards Gloucester, where boats were ready to convey 

 him and his army over the River of Severne into the Forest of Deane, and being 

 got over the river he wheeled about and came upon the reare of the Lord Herbert's 

 Welch army that have a long while besieged that city on the west side of it, tho 

 Garrison in Gloucester being appointed to sally out and fall upon the front of 

 them ; so that between both, the miserable seduced Welchmen were taken iu a 

 toil and cut oS without any great resistance ; there were between foure and five 

 hundred of them slaine upon the place. " 



"This day further information came out of Gloucestershire concerning the 

 late defeat given to the Lord Herbert's Welch army that besieged the City of 

 Gloucester, as namely— that Sir William Waller tooke about 1300 of them 

 prisoners, slew nearly 600 of them, and also that he took about 1500 armes, the 

 most of their muskets being neere upon a foot longer than all ordinary muskets 

 are ; that amongst the Welch were found many women which had knives near 

 half a yard long to effect some notable massacrees with them. " 



The accovmt of this engagement is also given in a little book published in 

 1647 under the title of " England's Worthies," at page 79 : — 



" He also, most undauntedly (with the help of renowned Colonel Massey 

 then Governor of Gloucester) set upon 2000 of the King's Welsh forces in the 

 Forest of Deane under the command of tho Lord Herbert, beat them out of their 

 trenches, slew about 600 on the place, took 400 of them prisoners, took 6 troops of 

 as brave horse as all England could show ; almost all their ai-mes and ammunition, 

 together with 5 pieces of ordnance. " 



Mr. Skillicorn has in his possession a little tract published in the year 1643, 

 the title being : — 



"A famous victorie obtained by Sir William Waller against the Lord 



