WEE marched from Pomfret towards Bradford, and in our way thither we summoned Sir Iohn Savile, Com­mander of Howley, to deliver up that House, and lay down his Armes so unjustly taken up, who returned an uncivill An­swer, and that he would keep it maugre our For­ces, whereupon we planted our Cannon against that House, and environed it upon Wednesday the 21 of Iune in the afternoon, and next morning took [Page 2]it by affault, and in it the said Commander in Chiefe, and all his Officers, and Souldiers, about 245, some few whereof were slain, the rest taken Prisoners; where by the unseasonablenesse of the weather we were enforced to remain till Friday the 30th of Iune, from whence we marched early towards Bradford, and when we had marched two miles or thereabouts we found a great Bodie of men, a greater number of Foot than we; and al­most all Musquetiers, and some twenty Troopes of Horse, and had possessed a place called Adderton moore, and taken the most advantageous places thereof, and lined severall hedges with Musque­tiers, and played so fiercely upon us, and that be­fore the whole Bodie of our Foot could be drawn up, and their Horse likewise possessing a plain Field and a great Ditch betwixt us lined with Musque­tiers, and keeping our Horse in a ground full of pits, that for the space of two houres or thereabouts, we were forced to give ground though very little: but when our Cannon was well placed, and our Foot once drawne up, within halfe an houre we put their Foot on the right Wing of the Battaile to retire, and pursued them so hotly, that they pre­sently were put into a disorderly retreat, whereup­on part of our Horse fell in upon that Wing, and [Page 3]the Cannon playing upon the Bodie of their Horse killed many and routed them, together with our Horse charging at that time, so we pursued them, killing and taking them to Bradford Town end, which was more than two miles, in which Chase was slain (as is supposed) about 500 of the Ene­mies, and about 1400 taken Prisoners, amongst which many Officers, together with three field-Pieces, and all their Ammunition there, which was not much. We had many Souldiers hurt, two Co­lonels of Horse slain, Heron and Howard, and some Officers hurt, as Colonell Throckmorton, Colonell Carnabie, and Captain Maison, all recoverable, and not above twenty common Souldiers slain.

That night we came before Bradford, a strong Town, and ill approaching to it, yet we made our approaches that night, the next day we had placed our Cannon and made places of Batteries very neare the Town and Church, where they had two Drakes upon the top of the steeple, and lined the steeple with wool-packes, yet our Cannon dis­mounted their Drakes upon the top of the steeple, and battered the steeple so as none could stay on it, where they had many Musquetiers, and so we got both the ends of the Town before Sunday night, and in the night time Sir Thomas Fairfax Governour [Page 4]of the Town, his Ladie, Major Gifford, and Sir Henry Fowlis escaped out of the Town, and upon a moor was forced to charge with their partee a par­tee of our Horse, where his Ladie and his Corner were taken Prisoners; but he and the other two be­ing well horsed escaped though pursued very neare Leedes, which was above five miles: and that mor­ning our men entered the Town, took Prisoners,

• 1. Colonell Malliver.
• 2. Sergeant Maior Wiltshire.
• 3. Captain Mudd.
• 4. Captain Rogers.
• 5. Captain Bland.
• 6. Captain Oneal.
• 7. Captain VVhite.
• 8. Captain Smith.
• 9. Captain Dent.
• 10. Captain Stanley.
• 11. Captain Feure.
• 12. Lieutenant Popler.
• 13. Lieutenant Loveday.
• 14. Lieutenant Moore.
• 15. Lieutenant Sad.
• Sergeant Floyd.
• Sergeant Brabant.
• VVilliam VVarden & Nathaniel Gosse Gunners.

[Page 5]With all or most of the common Souldiers, which are in number 300, or thereabouts, besides the en­larging of 200 Prisoners of ours there, and taking of Armes, which are yet uncertain in number.

That very day within three houres after came a Captain of ours, who among divers other Pri­soners at Leedes, finding that my Lord Fairfax and his son were inclined to leave the Town (as they did) attended with three or foure Troops of Horse, 200 Dragooners, and 300 Foot, broke out of Pri­son, possessed themselves of the Magazine, took all the Armes which were 1500 at least, eight Barrels of Powder, and twelve 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 seven hundred Prisoners there. The Lord Fairfax and his Son marched towards Selby, in which march his three hundred Foot ran 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, Maior Gifford, Sir Henry Fowlis, and Sir Thomas Mauliverer took a boat, and passed themselves therein, and swimming their Horses over the River, and as their [Page 6]men were passing over some of them were drown­ed with crowding the Boates, and so they fled we conceive to Hull, or to Nottingham, but to which is not certain.

The same day newes was brought us from Hal­lifax, 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, and two hundred men and Armes.