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THE GREAT BRIDGE OF BURTON-ON-TRENT. 14 
Sanders, and one peece of ordnance, and presently after made sixty 
dragoones, and soe kept the passage.” 
Early in May “ The Queane marched with all her forces towards 
Ashby-de-la-Zouch; Colonel Gell having true intelligence that shee 
was marching westwards and that shee would fall upon Burton because 
it was the chiefe passage from South to North, sent presently to Staff- 
ordshire for all the fforces to mate him, and likenwise to Nottingham 
where were about three thousand horse and ffoote and hee himselfe 
Grat wanity of hey mapan Ander 
O48 and han the dots * — ense ecatre 
Sire oP WEAK frvved a poed Jes! nemih de 
belt at Me Bortim ema gf Me brinys 
Foie ahead 
would draw out all his fforces to Egginton Heath and soe to Burton 
to assist them till the Queane were past but nobody would come, so 
that within three days after, shee marched towards Burton tooke the 
towne by storme, killed. many of them, tooke the Colonell, Leiftenant 
Colonell and most of the officers prisoners and soe most miserably 
plundered and destroyed the towne.” 
