MAy it please all and every one that shall cast her cood and favourable eyes upon this sheets of papers, to know and believe that all her Country-men of Wales by what­soever appellations they be called, are wonderfull sorry for her late temerities and rashnesse, whereunto the Tivell owing her a spight led her blind-fold, for her doe with teares over­flowing her cheeks, and drowning her hearts inward and out­ward acknowledge and confesse, (which her will not doe at a Sessions, for fear of hanging) that her was very strangely de­ceived by politike jeeres, flatteries, and temptations, to make walks and preambulations out of her Countries of Wales, to kill and fight with her know not whom, and her have curst her selfe many dayes together in Welsh for being such simple puppies, to be carryed away by witch-crafts as her thinkes, and as it will appear in her lamentable and pitifull recantati­ons, which her do now intend to make out of the coodnesse of her Prittish bloud, and valiant disposition a great while a­goe, her was perswaded to put on her Armes, and to march with crete courage and magnanimesties upon crete businesse, and matters of high and generous consequences as are concei­ved to condust and bring her cood and gracious King to her Parliament, and that his person might be secured from all in­dignities and injuries, for which her will spend her best plood in her pellies, her being true Brittain and love her King and Prince with all integrities, and all her hearts, but after her had consented to go in warlike fashions, her was led away in a fooles paradizes, to fall by the swords of her enemies, and to [Page]make her appearances in Kenton, Naseby, and many other Battels, where there was nothing but killing and slaying of all persons, without respect of degrees and petidegrees, and ancient Gentlemen and Lords were in as much pericles and dangers as her poorest Countrey-men; Lord blesse us, Guns went off like a clutter of haile stumbling down from her old Regiments in Wales, when her cousen Boreas swaggers and do­mineers on her Mountaines, and was crete deluges and over­flowings of blood which was spilt, to make the ground blush for inhumanities and mercilesse cruelty, and bullets flew a­bout her ears as commonly as if her should have told her some tale, and bid her beware, but her could not take heed of her comming, but those round pellets hit her in invisible miracu­lous manners her know not how, but her Country-men was killed and slaine, and dyed like rotten Muttons, before her could make her Inventories and Wills to aule her loving cou­zens, her was stroke dead without giving her leave to send commendations of her selfe and her valour to her Countrey-men: and Saint Winifreds Well could not flow in greater big streams then her saw plood run in streams mingled with vul­gars and Shentlemens plood, her could not know her con­sanguinity nor her Cozen, gentle bloud, but was aule running out of her veins and pellies, her cannot make terrible descri­ptions of awle those cruell fights, and horrible battels, which her was spectators and beholders of, but her can tell, that her was never put into such astonishments, and amazements in all her dayes, for her cannot with all her fancies and imagi­nations set out her pictures, and deadly representations of this hot skirmish, her know not about what, but meer piples, and papiles, and words, such as her never knew about Pregorga­tives, and Commissions of Array, her do not know, but her was ready in her breeches to bewray her selfe, and sometimes for very fears and affrights it run down her heeles, as if it had been three-penny new ale, such a work it did make, and that [Page]without authorities, but upon plain necessities and fears and frights, but her is now in all humility and submission ready and desirous to crave pardon for her following and obeying the Commission of Array; her thought like the poore dog, that her was going to a break fast, when her was going to hanging, her thought to have marched out of her Countrey, only to bring her King and Parliament to meet lovingly, but by the way, many thousand tivels met us, and spit fire against us, and sent us such hot answers, as bounce bounce, that her was almost deafe, and was lamed in all her senses, so that her thought her should never heare her Welsh harps more melo­diously playing: and besides the sin oake of Gun-powder spoi­led her stomack, that her did wish her had been tosting cheese by the fire-side in her own Country, there her could fight at country Machets, and crack her Couzens crown, and he took it for good payment for a Welsh Runt: But here at Keinton, Naseby, and Newberry, our crownes were crackt, and yet they would not be content, but we must pay our deare lives, and keep us from running home to Wales, though our legs was as cood and better then their hearts. Her was truly conformed before her went out of her Country, that her should get ho­nour and crete store of pillage, and cood pay for her labour, by Gods plutra nailes, her had such cood pay, that her desire never to be so paid again, the Red-coats did so pay her, that her was fain to run from her pay, marke her that now, her could have found better occupying at home, and better pay­ment made there, then her did at this Keinton, Newbery, and other battels, for her lost one arme, and almost one leg, in­somuch, that her shall never deale truly, nor go uprightly with her best friends,; Yet her do much thank her Fates in that her hath but one hand, for now her can pilfer and steale but halfe so much with one, as her could before with two, and so her should not be hanged so soon as her should, if her had two hands.

[Page] Her was likewise drilled to Coventry, and it was told her that it was a very rich Town, and cood store of pillage was therein, and that her should have fine shorts and fine sheets, her must confesse that put her into some heart to get some shirts, for her had never an one of her back, but a couple of nimb'd napkins tacked together, and so put upon her shoul­ders, and with never a sleeve, and those her wore 4. months, insomuch that her had neer threescore and two Moabites a­bout her, besides Nitites and Jebusites, which leapt like our Welsh goat over the pales and over the mountains, when we hunt her for venison. And some of them were grown grey with old age, others with a long red list downe their backs, others black all over, as nimble as a spirit, but the divellish back-biter of all the rest was the grey Moabite; ten thousand civels take em. And for her running away, her think is very cood wisedomes, for her do remember her Welsh proverb, de huma comr a [...] bo in daneth whee, that is, one paire of leggs is worth two paire of hands: yet her can shustifie that her Coun­try-men did not face about and run away the first, but did stoutly stand to it, and for her part, her did but winke twice in shooting thrice her gun off with a pellet in it, but her was in such a sweat with it, as if it had been St. Taffies day when all her cheeses are set to the fire to roast for joy.

And her tell her that for her own credit, that it was the En­glish-man that first run away, and it doth much rejoice her heart to hear, that not only some of her Country-men run a­way, but that divers English Captains not being content to run away on foot, but rode away like Cowards upon their horse backs, and with the Parliaments money also, bidding their souldiers shift for themselves, for they were all lost men. Nay her do caknow them very well, there was one Captaine Ramsey and Captain Frith, and that stout pot Captaine Sir Faithfull Fortescue, which her will rather call Faithlesse For­tescue, who durst not come up to her enemies face, but winked [Page]and shot of his pistoll in the ground, and run away without her word of command, and another Hobhardy Captain cal­ [...]ed Richard Parker, who looks like bul-beef, and would have frighted her with her looks, her do warrant her, but he like a [...]oward run away, and did not like an honest man go through-stitch with his work such a rascall would be hanged if her was in our Countrey, yet her would not have him hanged, for that would spoile his whistling, for if all run-awaies should be hanged, what would become of her none selfe: But her would have him marked for a white-liver'd slave, and where her had a horse of 12, l. price, her should have one of 12. s. the next time, and her Lord Generall should serve the souldiers as her cozen Iulius Caesar did when her first entred England, brought all his men in ships, and when he had landed them, commanded the ships to be sent home again, so that they had no hope left of running away, but to stand to it, and fight like men, or dye like cowards; So her would have her Par­liament let none of her Captaines have horses above 10. s. price, that if they offer to flye or run away, they may soone be overtaken, and punished, or so branded that they may be taken notice of for fugitives: for her owne part (alas poore Taffie) all that her could get for guarding up her King to the Parliament was the losse of one of her armes, and almost one of her legs, the Tivell take her Commission of Array, and her also, if ever her fight again for the Array, for it made her in a wofull case, I would I had her stones between her anvill at home, that first invented or found out the Commission of Ar­ray, but will conclude, as her cozen Sir Francis Iones did up­on the Sessions house bench when her cozen was condemn'd to be hang'd, he starting up hearing her Countryman cry for mercy, said it is wel you scape so too, so say I, it is wel I scaped so too, and so her will march home to her own Countrey, and make some new Alminacks and Prognostications from yeare to yeare hereafter.