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printed in vol. viii of The Transactions of the Royal Historical 

 Society, new series. It gives the arguments against Fairfax. 



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LORD NEWCASTLE'S ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF 



ATHERTON MOOR 



The original of the despatch in which Lord Newcastle announced 

 his victory has not survived, but it appears to me to be contained 

 in the following pamphlet. The pamphlet does not bear on its 

 title the name of any place, but the device of an Oxford printer 

 shows it to have been printed at Oxford. No author's name is 

 attached to it, nor is there any signature ; but it is evidently an 

 official relation, and the use of the first person (" I sent troops, etc.") 

 shows it to have been written by the royalist commander-in-chief. 

 Its style also rather resembles that of Newcastle's despatch on his 

 campaign against the Scots, printed in Appendix vii. For these 

 reasons I insert it here, but as being doubtful, have given it the 

 list place in the Appendix. 



An Express Relation of the Passages and Proceedings of his Majesty's 

 Army, under the Command of his Excellence the Earl of New- 

 castle, against the Rebels under the Command of the Lord 

 Fairfax and his Adherents 



[Printed in the year 1643.] 



' We marched from Pomfret towards Bradford, and in our way 

 thither we summoned Sir John Savile, commander of Howley, to 

 deliver up that house, and lay down his arms so unjustly taken up, 

 who returned an uncivil answer, and that he would keep it maugre 

 our forces, whereupon we planted our cannon against that house, 

 and environed it upon Wednesday the 21st of June in the after- 

 noon, and next morning took it by assault, and in it the said com- 

 mander-in-chief and all his officers and soldiers, about 245, some 

 few whereof were slain, the rest taken prisoners ; where, by the 

 unseasonableness of the weather, we were enforced to remain till 

 Friday the 30th of June, from whence we marched early towards 

 Bradford, and when we had marched two miles or thereabouts we 

 found a great body of men, a greater number of foot than we, and 

 almost all musketeers, and some twenty troops of horse, and had 

 possessed a place called Adderton Moor, and taken the most ad- 

 vantageous places thereof, and lined several hedges with muske- 



