IT hath pleased the Lord, to give your Servant and Souldiers a nota­ble Victory now at Gainsborow; I marched after the taking of Burl [...]y house upon Wednesday to Gratham, where I met about 300. Horse and Dragoneers of Nottingham, with these by agreement with the L [...]ncolneers, we met at North-Scarle, which is about ten miles from Gainsborow upon Thursday in the eve­ning, where we tarried untill two of the clocke in the morning, and then with our whole body, advanced towards Gainsbo­row, about a mile and a halfe from the Towne. We met a forlorne hope of the Enemy, of neere a 100. Horse, our Dra­goneers laboured to beat them back, but [Page 2] not a lighting of their Horses, the Ene­my charged them, and beat some foure or five of th [...] moff th [...]ir Horse, our Horse char­ged them, and made them retire unto their maine body: Wee advanced, and came to the bottome of a stéepe hill, up­on which the Enemy stood, we cou [...]d not well get up but by some tracts, which our men assaying to doe, the body of the Enemy endeavoured to hinder, wherein we prevailed, and got the top of the hill, this was done by the Lincolneérs, who had the Vanguard when we all recove­red the top of the hill, we saw a great bo­dy of the Enemies Horse, facing of us at about a Muskets shot or lesse distance, and a good reserve of a full Regiment of Horse behind it, we end [...]avoured to put our men into as good order as we could, the Enemy in the meane time advanced towards us, to tak [...] us at dis-advantage, but in such order as we were, we char­ged their great body. I having the right wing, we came up Horse to Horse, [Page 3] where we disputed it with our Swords and Pistols a pretty time, all keéping close order, so that one could not breake the other: at last they a little shrinking our men, perceiving it, pressed in upon them, and immediately routed this whole body, some flying on one side, others on the other of the Enemies reserve, and our men persuing them, had chase and exe­cution about five or six miles. I percei­ving this body which was the reserve, standing still unbroken, kept backe my Major Whaley from the chace, and with mine owne Troope and the other of my Regiment, in all being three Troopes, we got into a body, in this reserve stood G [...]nerall Cavendish, who one while faced me, and h [...]r while faced foure of the Lin­colne T [...]oopes, which was all of ours stood upon the place, the rest being inga­ged in the chace, at last the G [...]nerall char­ged the Lincolneérs and routed them, I immediately fell on his reare with my threé Troopes, which did so astonish him [Page 4] that he gave over the chace, and would faine have delivered himselfe from me, but I pressing on, forced them done a a hill, having good execution of them, and be­low the hill drove the General with some of his Souldiers into a Quagmire, where my Captaine Lieutenant slew him, with a thrust under his short ribs, the rest of the body was wholly routed, not one man staying upon the place.

Weé after the defeate which was so totall releived the Towne, with such powder and provision as we brought, which done we had notice that there were 6. Troops of Horse and 300 foote on the other side of the Towne, about a mile of us, we desired some foote of my Lord Willoughbyes, about 400. And with our Horse and their Foote marched towards them, when we came towards the place where their Horse stood, wee beat back with my Tropes about 2 or 3 Troops of the Enemies, who retired into a small village, at the bottome of [Page 5] the hill, when wee recovered the hill, we sawin the bottome about a quarter of a mile from us, a Regiment of Foote, af­ter that another, after that New-Castles owne Regiment, consisting in all, of a­bout fifty Foote Colours, and a great body of Horse which indeéd was, New-Castles army: which coming so unexpected­ly, put us to new consultations: My Lord VVilloughby and I being in the Towne, agreed to call of our Foote, I went to bring them off, but before I re­turned, divers of the Foote were enga­ged, the Enemy advancing with his whole body, our Foote retreated in some disorder, and with some losse got the Towne, where now they are, our Horse also came off, with some trouble being wearied with the long fight and their Horses tired yet faced the Enemies fresh Horse and by severall removes got off, without the losse of one man, the Enemy following the Reare with a great body, the honour of this retreat is due to God, [Page 6] as also all the rest, Major Whalley, did in this carry himselfe withall gallantly becomming a G [...]ntleman and a Christi­an. Thus have you this true Relation as short as I could, what you are to do upon it is n xt to be considered, the Lord direct you what to doe.