SOMEKSETSHIRE SKQUESTRATIüNS. 75 



" A Relation of the Actions of the Parllaments Forces, 

 under the Command of the Earl ot" Bedford, Generali of 

 the Horse, against those whlch came from Sherbourn unto 

 Babell-hill, neer unto Yevvell, upon Wednesday, the 7th 

 of this instant September, 1 642. 



" Which was extracted out of a letter sent to the Par- 

 liament, from Dorche&ter, the lOth of September, 1642. 



" Signed by — Bedford, Denzill Hollis, John Northcot, 

 George Chudley, Walter Erle, Tho. Wroth, Alex. Pop- 

 ham, Charles Essex, William Strode Pine, Cle. Walker, 

 Plugh Rogers, Ro. Harbin. 



" Upon Tuesday the sixt of September, the Parlia- 

 ments forces did rise from before Sherbourn, and went 

 that night unto Yevvell, a Town being four miles distant 

 from Sherburn, where we lay on Wednesday to refi'esh 

 ourselves, upon which day it pleased God to give us a 

 great taste of His Goodnesse, to the great shame and 

 losse of the enemie. About two of the clock in the after- 

 noon there appeared a great body of their horse and foot 

 upon a great hill wlthin a little mile of the Town, caüed 

 Babell Hill, and so was it truly to them a Babell of con- 

 fusion. Upon which we presently put ourselves in array 

 as well as we could, to make good all the outwayes, and 

 guard the Magazine, which to do we found but very few 

 men, and more pikemen than musquetiers, for the mus- 

 quetiers found themselves to be most imployed upon all 

 occasions, and therefore, the principally shifted away, and 

 even sent out to their side, where the euemle appeared, 

 three troops of horse and some musquetiers, they standing 

 still at the top of the hill, braving of us and calliiig us 

 rogues and roundheads. Our men went up to the hill to 

 Charge them, Captain Aiscogh one way, Captain Tomson 

 another way, a little after him, and Captain Balfour a third, 



