YEsterday according to the Articles, Prince Rupert marched out in this man­ner, having first drawne all his Foot into the Roy­all Fort and Castle, his Horse standing in the Greene under the Fort, within the Line, those Wagons appointed for him being laden with his Baggage, in all not above eight.

Hee drew out part of his Foot and Horse before his VVagons, and part following, Himselfe next with his [Page 2]Lifeguard of Firelocks came forth, all in Red Coats be­fore him, and his Lifeguard of Horse following, accom­panied with some Lords, viz. Cromwell, Grandison, &c. Colonell Hamonds Regiment of Foot standing at the Port to receive the Keyes of the Fort and march in, Lieutenant Generall Cromwell, Colonell Montague, Colonel Rainsborough, and some other Officers waited at the Port of the Fort for his comming out, and waited upon him to the Generall, who stood with the Convoy of Horse without the Line, and accompanied him over Durdum Downe, being almost two miles: The Prince was clad in Scarlet, very richly laid with silver Lace, mounted up­on a very gallant black Barbary Horse; the Generall and the Prince rid together, the Generall giving the Prince the right hand all the way; the number of the Princes Foot was about 2000. The Horse with the designed number of two hundred and fifty and the Lifeguard al­together, made about foure hundred: And I think there might be of Noblemen and Gentlemen at the least three hundred more. The Prince upon the Greene then na­med the place to which he would march, which was to Oxford, and quartered at Westberry the last night: Colo­nell Butler with his Regiment, and Major Hemington with the Lieutenant Generals Regiment, waited on him as Convoy.

The Generall upon his returne viewed the Royall Fort which certainly is one of the bravest Citadels in England, in it foure and twenty pieces mounted upon five Bastions, Powder in quantity, Victuals in abundance of all sorts, fourescore or an hundred tunne of Beare, Bread sufficient to serve almost one hundred thousand men a day.

Upon the Line, Castle, and Forts, might bee in all [Page 3]about two hundred pieces of Ordnance mounted, two or three hundred barrels of Powder, a great Magazine of Armes, some say three or foure thousand, the City it selfe being the next to London in the Kingdom; all this successe is the Lords doing, which ought to be marvel­lous in our eyes. VVhat is next to be done is now to be considered on; I hope God will counsell us for the best: VVe shall be very sudden on motion, and then I shall give you a further accompt.

WE took Basalisk warning piece which was lost in Cornwall, with some other pieces also lost there; so that at Naseby and Bridgewa [...]er we have retaken all the Pieces the Earle of Essex lost in Cornwall. There is left onely a Regiment of Foot in the Fort and Castle, by reason the Sicknesse is much in the Towne; this day the Army removes to Cavesham and Penford, fresh Quarters free from sicknesse untill the Money come from Reading, and this place be setled. Somersetshire is raising two thousand men to recruit the Army, part of which we are to receive to morrow, and hope for one thou­sand and five hundred more out of Gloucestershire.