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have taken oatli to fight for the King and Parliament, and are entered into 

 pay, but Sir William made towards the Forest of Deane, and give passage 

 over the River made made use of 30 boats that were intended for service at 

 Worcester, and with them made a bridge over Severn, and so marches 

 forcing his passage through the Forest to Highnam, a place were the Welch 

 forces were intrenched, and fell upon the reare of them, whUe other forced 

 out of Gloucester fell upon the front, and so encompassed them, slew many, 

 tooke 1326 prisoners, 500 horse, with neere a hundred commanders, since 

 which overthrow given to the Welch some other of the King's forces tooke 

 a troope of Sir William Waller's horse, but he soon recovered it again, 

 and above 51 horse 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 Uttle 

 less than is before related." 



The following extract is from number 36of tlie "Continuation 

 of Special and BemarTcahle Passages :" — 



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

 Waxler slew (as has formerly been aUuded to) about 500 Welshmen, and 

 took at least 1000 prisoners, 1600 arms and 4 pieces of ordnance, there 

 being about 100 ofBcers, with great store of horses and other provisions 

 for war ; the Lord Herbert's own troop being taken, which 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 

 hundi-ed pounds a horse. Sir William Waller marched to Tewkesbury, 

 which the King's troops evacuated 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 dii-ectly towards Gloucester, where boats were ready 

 to convey him and his army over the Eiver 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, the 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 in a toil and cut off without any 

 great resistance ; there were between f oure and five hundred of them slaine 

 ■ upon the place." 



"This day f mother 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 



