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9. Captain Dent. 



10. Captain Stanley. 



1 1 . Captain Feure. 



12. Lieutenant Popler. 



13. Lieutenant Loveday. 



14. Lieutenant Moore. 



15. Lieutenant Sad. 

 Sergeant Floyd. 

 Sergeant Brabant. 



William Lowden and Nathaniel Goffe, gunners, 



with all or most of the common soldiers, which are in number 300 

 or thereabouts, besides the enlarging of 200 prisoners of ours there, 

 and taking of arms which are yet uncertain in number. 



' That very day, within three hours after, came a captain of ours, 

 who among divers other prisoners at Leeds, finding that my Lord 

 Fairfax and his son were inclined to leave the town (as they did) 

 attended with three or four troops of horse, 200 dragooners, and 

 300 foot, broke out of prison, possessed themselves of the magazine, 

 took all the arms, which were 1 500 at least, eight barrels of powder, 

 and 12 pieces of ordnance, with a very great proportion of match 

 and ball, and so kept the town till I sent forces into it, besides 

 the enlarging of 700 prisoners there. The Lord Fairfax and his 

 son marched towards Selby, in which march his 300 foot run away 

 from him ; and his forces left, being discovered by our forces at 

 the garrison of Cawood were charged by them, and they fled into 

 the town of Selby. Our forces being too weak for them were 

 forced to retire ; so my Lord, his son Sir Thomas, Major Gifford, 

 Sir Henry Fowlis, and Sir Thomas Mauleverer, took a boat and 

 passed themselves therein ; and swimming their horses over the 

 river, and as their men were passing over some of them were drowned 

 with crowding the boats, and so they fled, we conceive, to Hull or 

 to Nottingham, but to which is not certain. 



' The same day news was brought us from Halifax, that all the 

 forces were run from thence, and have taken with them all our 

 prisoners that remained there, and so we are possessed of that 

 town, as also of Denton House, my Lord Fairfax, his house, wherein 

 there was a small garrison, two drakes, 200 men and arms.' 



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