BEcause of our being constrain'd these nights (by past) to want sleepe, and this last night Horse and Man to lye upon the heath betwixt [Page 4] Alford and Winchester, and all this da [...] in like manner spent upon the fields before Winchester, (so that be­ing drowsie for want of sleepe) I shall beg leave of your Excellency for using a short discourse, for the present to let your Excell: know, That it hath pleased Almighty God to grant us a great Victory over our enemies, beyond all expe­ctation; VVe having taken a reso­lution (by reason of your Excellen­cies and the Committee of both Kingdomes commandments) to be wary, and cautious to engage our selves in a fight with the enemy but upon advantage; Yet wee fin­ding them resolved to put us to it, [Page 5]on Friday the 29 of this instant, by their bringing their whole Army upon us, to beate out first some Musquetiers out of the hedges a pretty distance from our quarters, and thereafter to Allarm our quar­ters: I caused all our Horse to draw out in a little Heath before our quarters, and the Foot to be drawn up in Battell in a large spacious field within our quarters in a Heath. The enemy coming towards us, were re­ceived with such dexterity & valor, that it pleased Almighty God (after a long cumbate all the day long, from nine a clock in the morning to night) to give us an unexpected great Victory, by beating both their [Page 6]Horse and Foote out of the Heath before our quarters, and following the victory not onely to their quar­ters, but put them by Alford, and followed them within 4. miles of Winchester; their whole body of foot which they have beene so long a composing (I assure your Excel­lency) totally routed, & so broken, that Hopton cannot make up his Foote Army I am confident most part of this summer; their Foote were so dispersed up and downe through all the fields, that they sweare they will never serve againe: The Lord John brother to the D. of Richmond, who commanded their Horse, is killed for certain, with ma­ny [Page 7]Officers, as Col. Butler, Col. Gray and others; Sir John Smith, Cary, with Stovell dangerously wounded, who is also our prisoner, Col. Peard and Seamore, and 5. or 6. more Commanders prisoners, and as many ordinary souldiers as we desired to take. Of ours onely Col. Meldrum shot in his arme, and wounded in the head, but not dan­gerously or mortall; Major Bozwell also wounded in the belly that he cannot live: So that all agrees that there was never so great a Victory; neither so few slain men: the ene­mies Horse held up the Foot, and made them stand to it, and fight by force, beating and cutting them [Page 8]with their swords. VVe are more then obliged to our good God for so great a Victory, God make us thankfull for it.