A true and impartiall account of the plunderings, losses, and sufferings of the County of Hereford by the Scottish army, during their siege before the city of Hereford, Anno Dom. 1645. Since brought in by the country in writing. Published in this juncture of time for the undeceiving of the people, who may perhaps fancy to themselves some imaginable advantage by stickling for the Scots and their partizans in this nation. By Miles Hill, Gent.

A true and impartiall account of the plunderings, losses, and sufferings of the County of Hereford by the Scottish army, during their siege before the city of Hereford, Anno Dom. 1645. Since brought in by the country in writing. Published in this juncture of time for the undeceiving of the people, who may perhaps fancy to themselves some imaginable advantage by stickling for the Scots and their partizans in this nation. By Miles Hill, Gent.

Table of contents

Title page

To the Christian Reader.

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The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Graytree.

The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Woolsey.

The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Broxas.

The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Wormloe.

The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Jemisworth.

The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Huntington.

The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Bebtry.

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A True and Impartiall ACCOUNT OF THE Plunderings, Losses, and Sufferings OF THE County of HEREFORD BY THE Scottish Army, During their siege before the City of HEREFORD, Anno Dom. 1645.

Since brought in by the Country in writing.

Published in this juncture of time for the undeceiving of the people, who may perhaps fancy to themselves some imaginable advantage by stickling for the Scots and their Partizans in this Nation.

By MILES HILL, Gent.

LONDON, Printed by E. G. for L. G. 1650.

To the Christian Reader.

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WHen the Apostle makes a prediction of the evils and miscariages of the last daies, 2 Tim. 3. he doth not instance in such wickednesses as are of a grosse and visible cognizance, but in those of a more spirituall and refined nature, men shall be lovers of themselves, without naturall affection, highminded, &c. For as in the appearances of heavenly glory the best wine is kept till last, and the compleatest enjoyments served up at the end of the feast; so darknesse treasures up her most deceavable workes till the last shew and appearance of all her sorceries: The reason is, because the world being now ripened in understanding and judgement, by long and costly experience, is not so apt to be imposed upon by such evils, as lye open to the redargution of sence and common principles; but is advanced into error by changable fallacies and deceits, through all gradations and methods of subtilties, according to the wisdom of him who is wiser in his generation then the children of light, amongst those dark and sable appearances which hightned the danger of the last times; the Apostle gives the last place to a form of godlinesse, without the power, ver. 5. & truly (Reader) when thou seest self love, love of pleasure, covetousnesse, fiercenesse &c clothed with a form of Religion, then judge that this prophecy is fulfilled, and that thou art fallen into the very last of the last dayes, (i.) into the lees of all danger, and the very dreggs of times. And indeed the world in a great measure labours under this deceit at this very time, when [Page]selfe and selfe interests are advanced, under notions, and pretences more specious and taking then their own; who is there almost that lives in the true being and power of Religion, and delights in it for its own sake? but we embrace the outward huske and shell, mixing the pretences of divine and humane interest for worldly advantages, which is the most fordid and degenerous of all accompts; how happy were it if the world were undeceaved in this particular, and could attaine to the true understanding and discernance of all things, untwisting all interests, unfolding all mysteries, giving unto Caesar that which is Caesars, and unto God that which is Gods? As I cannot acquit many of our owne from this evill, so thou hast here a pregnant instance of this deceit in the ensuing discourse. Our brethren of Scotland (us we formerly called them) in the flood of all their designes made their own interests and advantages the mid channell, the heart, and center, which acted and informed the course of their undertaking here amongst us. The pretended appearance of religion and zeale had at first wonne them great r [...]ute amongst the credulous and well meaning English, especially in their first and best designes; I myselfe was a great Proselite of theirs till I had experimented their oppressions, self-seekings and cruelty at the siege before Hereford; where though they were sufficiently provided for, by the care of the honorable Commissioners from the Parliament of England, who were pleased to imploy me to get in provission from the Country; Yet the great spoyle and havocke they made, almost to the impoverishing and ruining many poore families in that Country, did wofully experiment the disagreement between their intentions and pretences in this particular: I speak not of the Hamiltonians [Page]party, whose deceit was more grosse, and by consequence sooner found out, and deeply punished by him, who judgeth the fatherlesse and pleadeth the cause of the widdow; but of the Army under Generall Leven, cemented in a pretended Kirk-interest; these were the men that in five weekes endamaged this small County so many thousands, when they were setled in the siege before Hereford, and an orderly course taken for their subsistance far above the ability of that poore County; yet they soon found out waies to carpe at the proceedings of the Parliaments Commissioners, to disoblidge them, to weary them out, that so they might be their own carvers, and impose what charge they pleased upon the Country, which was taxed by them five times above what the Parliaments Commissioners thought it able to beare; of which thou hast here an accompt in the ensuing discourse, as to some Parishes; if I had not been impeded in my work by malignant, neutrall, and disaffected persons I had brought in a compleat catologue from the remaining parishes amounting to neare so much more; Is not neare 60000 li. a great losse for one County in five weeks, and that by pretended friends? Let not Religion be abused hereafter; let pollicy and piety go by distinct names; let lucre appeare as it is; let not selfe and self interest be ashamed to appeare to be what they are; let us learne to distinguish persons, interests, and things hereafter; let Religion go for no more then it weighs; (i.) let us ascribe no more truth or realty [...]men, then we can experiment in them; let not pretences cheate us. Naturallists observe that those bruites which come nearest the shape, but fall short of the true being of man, are most ugly; tis so here, the more seemingly religious a pretence is, [Page]the nearer a kin to the outward forme, the more loathsome, despicable and deformed. Yet, how are weapt to be deceived? how are we transported? how many proselytes have these false pretences, and interests amongst us? what children are we when toys and fancies please us? I write this (if possible) to caution and undeceive my Country men from harkening to the Syren layes of Kirke seducers, these are the men that foment warres, strifes, divisions, in the world, for the maintenance of their own dominations and discontents; if their stratagems were but seene, they were prevented, let us rather joyn hand in hand, and quietly sit under our own vines and figtrees in submission to the present power, then to make merchandize of our peace estates and lives by huckstering for any corrupt party or faction whatsoever; if their little singer were so heavy, what wil their loynes be? It is eccentricall to my purpose to enumerate all their miscarriages in their marches to and from Hereford, and in the Northerne Countrys, I shall leave that to those who are fellow sufferers with us in the like miseries, hoping that they may be awakened to some such discovery as I doe here present thee with; I shall say no more to thee, but wishing thee not to sacrifice thy wife and children to the bare pretences of a Covenant, Loyalty, Religion; I leave thee to the perusall of the ensuing discourse by which thy conviction as to the true understanding of the persons and designes herein mentioned (through Gods blessing may be more cheap and easie then ours (to our so [...]ow and smart) was.

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AN abstract taken of the losses dammages and plunderings of 106. small Parishes within the County of Hereford by the Scottish Army commanded by Generall Leven, in which the poor Inhabitants thereof lost, as by a true accompt ready to be attested upon oath, under the hands of the Officers and chiefe of every Parish, to the value of the summes underwritten at every Parish appearing, in which County are 70 Parishes more which suffered in the like nature asmuch if not more, as is verily believed, which brought not in their accompts to be put to publique view, by reason of some disaffected to the businesse being scottified persons; in the prosecution of which were divers houses riffled, doors, Chests, and Trunks broken open, severall families undone; most of all their Cattle, horses, and goods taken from them; much mony plate, Jewels and all kind of rich houshold-stuffe, Rings, and other rich commodities, as wearing apparrel, linnen, books; the Plate & linnen of divers Churches, neere all the horses, mares, & colts that ever they set their eyes upon as wel from friends as others; which the Reader may see if he please in an Inventory, as it was taken and brought in writing unto Miles Hill Gentleman, at the City of Hereford, in the moneth of September 1646. being the severall accompts of each Parish, at Major Mans house at the signe of the Boote hard by the Fountaine Taverne in the Strand; these outrages being committed in July and August the yeare before, as they lay in siege before the City of that County; their body of foote had then close begirt it; who had their provisions brought in to them by the poor country-man, they confisting of 9000. and odde persons; their horse that guarded these foote were about 1500. David Lesley having marched with the rest towards Scotland; as soon as they entred the County the spoyle being divided most of it by those horse left to guard these foote, there being many hundred of women, & baggage horses ready to receive it, who packed it up, who did constantly march with this Army. Reader, if thou hadst been present to have seen the cryes these poor people made, if thy heart had not been hard, it would have melted into teares with them; considering that this Army comming in with the prayers of the Kirke as brethren, should doe such things; and all within the space of 36 dayes; the siege began the 29. of July 1645. and rose up the second of September following, and left the City unattempted or taken.

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The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Graytree.

| l. | s. | d.
TAken and plundered from the Brough and and Forren of Rose to the value of— | 1189 | 18 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Much Martle to the value of— | 1104 | 11 | 04
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Eaton Tregos to the value of— | 0238 | 16 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Ashton Iguram to the valew of— | 0178 | 04 | 10
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of the Lea to the value of— | 0134 | 19 | 08
Taken and plundered from the parishioners of Linton to the value of— | 0487 | 16 | 11
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Woollhoye to the value of— | 0650 | 00 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Sollershop to the value of— | 0094 | 09 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Upton Bishop to the valew of— | 0674 | 12 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Westton under [...] to the value of— | 0742 | 05 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Waford to the value of— | 0091 | 05 | 10
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Brampton to the value of— | 0439 | 15 | 06
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Putney to the value of— | 0073 | 13 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Mancels Hope to the value of— | 0063 | 00 | 00
Taken and plundered from the parishioners of Dorrington to the value of— | 0328 | 08 | 02
Taken and plundered from the parishioners of Mordeford to the value of— | 0490 | 00 | 00
Summe | 6979 | 08 | 08

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The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Woolsey.

| l. | s. | d.
TAken and plundered from Mr. Manington of the parish of Sarnfield to the valew of— | 1000 | 00 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Risbury and Nicton to the value of— | 0325 | 00 | 00
Taken and plundred from the parishioners of Docklow to the value of— | 0123 | 01 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners more to the value of— | 0051 | 13 | 03
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Hatfield and Doctlow to the valew of— | 0107 | 08 | 04
Taken from the parishioners of Hursby, Hepsleys Green, and Hoggaston to the value of— | 0087 | 19 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Sarnfield to the value of— | 0022 | 19 | 00
Taken from Arthur VVinwood of Upton Gent. to the value of— | 0185 | 00 | 00
Taken from the Parishioners of Upton more by plunder to the value of— | 0051 | 10 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Tester to the value of— | 0076 | 10 | 00
Taken and plundered from Mr. Richard Collins of Upton to the value of— | 0220 | 00 | 00
Taken and plundered from the parishioners of Yarpall to the value of— | 0066 | 01 | 08
Taken and plundered from the parishioners of little Dwilwin and Sollers to the value of— | 0256 | 15 | 01
Taken of Mr. Hyet of Bidney to the valew of— | 0015 | 16 | 01
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Warton and Newton to the value of— | 0176 | 11 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Ivington— | 0189 | 03 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Eaton Honner, and Stretford to the value of— | 1043 | 18 | 02
Taken and plundered from the parishioners of Hidehill and Wintercot to the value of— | 0068 | 18 | 04
Taken and plundered from Hope Hampton, and Winsbery to the value of— | 0483 | 11 | 02
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Humber to the valew of— | 0055 | 05 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Lye court to the value of— | 0031 | 18 | 06
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Luston to the value of— | 0137 | 16 | 10
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Kimbolton to the value of— | 0278 | 17 | 01
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Orleton to the value of— | 0027 | 13 | 04
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Ashton to the value of— | 0032 | 16 | 00
Taken and plundered from the inhabitants of Moorton to the value of— | 0093 | 00 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of little Hereford to the value of— | 0066 | 16 | 08
Taken and plundered from the While and Piddleston to the value of— | 0022 | 03 | 06
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Stagbadge in Chalstry to the value of— | 0050 | 05 | 00
Taken from the Inhabitants of Richford to the value of— | 0220 | 00 | 00
Taken from the Inhabitants of Eyton to the value of— | 0088 | 08 | 04
Taken from the Inhabitants of Lucton to the value of— | 0063 | 18 | 04
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Middleton to the value of— | 0217 | 05 | 11
Summe | 6130 | 11 | 11

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The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Broxas.

| l. | s. | d.
TAken from the Parishioners of Marden by plunder to the value of— | 0796 | 15 | 05
Taken from Preston town and the Parishioners of Willington to the value of— | 0696 | 15 | 00
Taken from the Parishioners of Felton to the valew of— | 0099 | 13 | 04
Taken from the Inhabitants of Bromyard cum membris to the valew of— | 0682 | 17 | 06
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Sutton to the value of— | 0354 | 00 | 00
Taken from the inhabitants of Wacton to the value of— | 0012 | 11 | 07
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Grendon Bishop to the value of— | 0090 | 02 | 08
Taken from the Parishioners of Amberley to the value of— | 0066 | 00 | 00
Taken from the parishioners of Thorneby and Rowden to the value of— | 0043 | 05 | 04
Taken and plundered from the parishioners of Much Cowyarne to the value of— | 0278 | 10 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Parishioners of Tedston Dallamore to the value of— | 0031 | 00 | 10
Taken and plundered from Tedston Wafer to the value of— | 0087 | 09 | 08
Taken and plundered from the parishioners of Pencomb to the value of— | 0063 | 08 | 03
Taken and plundered from the parishioners of Ullinsweek and little Coward to the value of— | 0022 | 13 | 04
Taken from the parishioners of Stokelacye to the value of— | 0120 | 12 | 10
Taken from the parishioners of Whiteborne to the value of— | 0046 | 94 | 11
Taken from the parishioners of Ockle Pychard to the value of— | 0338 | 17 | 06
Taken from the Parishioners of Stamford Bishop to the value of— | 0236 | 11 | 02
Taken from the inhabitants of Menbery to the value of— | 0081 | 01 | 08
Taken from the Inhabitants of Bromyard Town to the valew of— | 0252 | 02 | 00
Taken from Waffoloe, and one Cooke to the valew of— | 0057 | 00 | 00
Taken from the parishioners of Hampton Charles— | 0030 | 10 | 05
Taken and plundered from the parishioners of Boddenham to the value of— | 0607 | 10 | 01
Summe | 4895 | 12 | 02

The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Wormloe.

| l. | s. | d.
TAken and plundered from the Inhabitants of St. Warne to the value of— | 0195 | 00 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Bowlston to the value of— | 0099 | 10 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Actenbury to the value of— | 0105 | 10 | 00
Taken and plundered from the inhabitants of Dewsall to the value of— | 0129 | 06 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Sellocke and Foye to the value of— | 0077 | 08 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Machbery to the value of— | 0181 | 07 | 00
Taken and plundered from the inhabitants of Orcupe to the value of— | 0097 | 11 | 02
In damage and losse to the inhabitants of Kilpecke to the value of— | 0104 | 14 | 02
Taken und plundered from the Inhabitants of Kings Chappell to the value of— | 0063 | 11 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of little Burch to the value of— | 0071 | 03 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of little Dew church to the value of— | 0092 | 16 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Tretyre and Michael Church to the value of— | 0165 | 02 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Londinabo to the value of— | 0045 | 14 | 06
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Longaran to the value of— | 0120 | 13 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Morstow— | 0010 | 09 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Kentchurch to the value of— | 0006 | 14 | 06
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Garway to the valew of— | 0401 | 18 | 02
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Phitslowe to the value of— | 0006 | 00 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Gotheridge to the value of— | 0038 | 03 | 06
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Hentland to the value of— | 0082 | 15 | 00
Taken and plundered from Morley of that parish to the value of— | 0022 | 00 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Dewchurch to the value of— | 0040 | 00 | 00
Summe | 2157 | 06 | 01

The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Jemisworth.

| l. | s. | d.
TAken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Holmer to the value of— | 0531 | 07 | 04
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Hampton Bishop to the value of— | 0511 | 18 | 04
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Willington to the value of— | 0485 | 13 | 08
Taken and plundered from the inhabitants of Wornsley to the value of— | 0107 | 10 | 04
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Pipe to the value of— | 0161 | 08 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Kenchester to the value of— | 0336 | 12 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Credenhill to the value of— | 0113 | 11 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Bushopson to the value of— | 0218 | 11 | 02
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Norton Cannon to the value of— | 0112 | 10 | 10
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Byford to the value of— | 0241 | 01 | 06
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Braynton to the value of— | 0060 | 00 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Mornington to the value of— | 0220 | 18 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Bridge sollerd to the valew of— | 0211 | 10 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Yazor to the value of— | 0172 | 12 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Stanton to the value of— | 0352 | 16 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Burhill to the value of— | 0268 | 12 | 04
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Mansell Gamadge to the value of— | 0212 | 02 | 06
Summe | 3818 | 15 | 08

The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Huntington.

| l. | s. | d.
TAken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Kington to the value of— | 0165 | 02 | 11
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Huntington to the value of— | 0140 | 09 | 03
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Brilley to the value of— | 3152 | 03 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Eridesly to the value of— | 0454 | 03 | 04
Taken and plundered from the inhabitants of Whitney to the valew of— | 0193 | 06 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Cliffard and Hardwick to the value of— | 0221 | 10 | 07
Taken and plundred from the Inhabitants of Winsorton to the value of— | 0112 | 00 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Batch and [...] to the value of— | 0151 | 08 | 06
Taken and plundered from the severall Inhabitants of Clifford to the value of— | 0017 | 16 | 08
Summe | 1608 | 00 | 09

The severall losses and dammage sustained by the severall Inhabitants in the severall Parishes within the Hundred of Bebtry.

| l. | s. | d.
TAken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Preston upon Wye to the value of— | 0606 | 00 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Tremell to the value of— | 0119 | 17 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Merkes to the value of— | 0141 | 16 | 00
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Dorson to the value of— | 0302 | 07 | 02
Taken and plundered from the Township of Vowchurch to the value of— | 0080 | 02 | 04
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Wormbridge to the value of— | 0034 | 01 | 04
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Kentchurch to the value of— | 0054 | 04 | 11
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Dinder to the value of— | 0484 | 07 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Didley to the value of— | 0307 | 15 | 07
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Kinson to the value of— | 0392 | 19 | 10
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Black more to the value of— | 0042 | 03 | 04
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Dulas to the value of— | 0030 | 15 | 02
Taken and plundered from Backton parish to the value of— | 0039 | 12 | 04
Taken from the parish of Peterchurch to the value of— | 0237 | 16 | 08
Taken and plundered from the Inhabitants of Abbeydore— | 1212 | 03 | 01
Taken from Kentchurch and Howton to the value of— | 0177 | 18 | 10
Taken from Retherose and the Inhabitants there to the value of— | 0206 | 00 | 00
Taken from the Inhabitants of Home Larye to the value of— | 0295 | 09 | 11
Taken from the Inhabitants of Much Dewchurch to the value of— | 0689 | 12 | 11
Taken from the Inhabitants of Eaton Bishop to the value of— | 0610 | 10 | 05
Taken from other persons neer the parish to the value of— | 0137 | 18 | 01
Summe | 6153 | 09 | 11

Summe totall of all the aforesaid particulars is
31743
05
02

Besides the dammage, plundering, and losses of the 70 Parishes which brought not in their accounts: with divers Gentlemen, and persons that neglected to bring in their accounts, that lived within the 160 Parishes herein accounted for, which is expected, might have amounted neer the Summe of 30000 li. more.

FINIS.

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A true and impartiall account of the plunderings, losses, and sufferings of the County of Hereford by the Scottish army, during their siege before the city of Hereford, Anno Dom. 1645. Since brought in by the country in writing. Published in this juncture of time for the undeceiving of the people, who may perhaps fancy to themselves some imaginable advantage by stickling for the Scots and their partizans in this nation. By Miles Hill, Gent.

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— A true and impartiall account of the plunderings, losses, and sufferings of the County of Hereford by the Scottish army, during their siege before the city of Hereford, Anno Dom. 1645. Since brought in by the country in writing. Published in this juncture of time for the undeceiving of the people, who may perhaps fancy to themselves some imaginable advantage by stickling for the Scots and their partizans in this nation. By Miles Hill, Gent., Hill, Miles..

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EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).

The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source.

Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data.

Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.

Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.

The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.

Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).

Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site.