PAR T I. Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter. Goring's Rout : and an Hundred pounds Reward was voted ro himfelf for bringing the News, andto Major Bethel for his Service, but none to Capr.Evanfan, becaufe he was no Sectary , andBethel only had all the Glory andApplaufe by Cromwell and that Party. From Bridgwater they went back towards Brii tol, where Prince Rispert was,taking Runny Cattle and Bath in the way : At Briftol they continued the Siege about á month. After the firlt three days I fell lick of a Fever ( the Plague being round about myQiarters) : As loon asI felt my Difeafe, I rode fix or leven miles back into the Country, and thenext morning ( withmuch ado) to Bath: where Dr. Penner was my careful Phyfician; and when I was near to death (far from all my Acquaintance) it pleafedGod to reftoreme, and on the fourteenth day , the Fe- ter ended in a Crifis of Sweat andUrine : But it left me fomacerated and weak, that it was long ere I recovered that little ttrengrh I had before. I came back to BriJtol Siege three or four days before the City was taken : The Foot which was to (form the Works, would not go on unlefsthe Horfe went with them, (who had noService todo) : So Whalley's Regiment was fain to go on toencourage the Foot, and to Band to be thor at before theOrdinance (but in the Night) while the Foot did florm the Forts : where Major Betbel(who in the laft Fight had but his Thumb fhot) had a ¡hot in his Thigh of which he died, and was much lamented. The Outworks being taken, Prince Rupert yielded up the City, upon Terms that he might march awaywith his Soldiers, leaving their Ordnance andArms. Upon this the Army marcht to Sherbert, Caille (the Earl of Briflol's Houfe) : which after a Fortnights Siege, they took by (form, and that on a fide which one would think could never have been that way taken. While they were there , the Country-men, calledClubmen, rofe near Sbafirbury, and got upon the topof a Hill: AParty was fent out againft them , who marcht up the Hill upon them , and touted them, thoughforce of the valienteft Men were (lain in the Front. When SherbornCattle was taken, part of the Army went back and took in a fmall Garrifon by Salisbury, called Langford-Houfe, and fo marcht to Wincbeffer.. Ca- file, and took that by Compolition after a Weeks liege, or littlemore.Fromthence Cromwell went with a good Party to Befiege Baling-Houfe ( the Marquefs of Win- ehefters ) which had fruftratedgreat Sieges heretofore : Here Col. Hammond was taken Prifoner into the Houfe, and afterward the Houfe was taken by form, and he faced the Marquefs and others ; and much Riches were taken by the Sol- diers. In the mean time thereit of the Army marched down again towards the Lord Goring, andCromwell came after them. § 79. When we followed the Lord Goring weftward, we found that above all other Armies of the King, his Soldiers were molt hated by the People, for their incredible Prophanenefs and their unmerciful Plundering ( many of them being Forreigners). A lober Gentleman that I quarter 'd with at South-Pederton in Somer- ferfbire. averred m me, That with him a Company of them pricks their Fingers,and lec the Bloodrun into the Cup, and drank a Health to the Devil in it : And no place couldI come into but their horrid Impiety and Outrages made them odi- ous. The Army marched down byHunbingron to Exeter ; where I continued near three Weeks among them at the Siege, and thenWhalley's Regiment with the Ge- neral's, Fleetwood's and others being fens back, I returned with them and left the Siege ; which continued till the City was taken : And then the Armyfollowing Ge- ring into Cornwall,there forced him to yield to lay down Arms,his Men going away beyond Sea or elfewhere without their Arms : And at left Pendennra Cattle, and all the Garrifons there were taken. In the mean time Whalley was to Command the Party ofHorfe back, to keep in the Garrifon of Oxford till the Army could come to befiege it : And fo in the ex- tream Winter hequartered about fix Weeks in Buckingbamfhire e anti then was rent to lay liege to Banbury Cattle, where SirWilliam Compton was Governour, who had wearied out one long liegebefore: There I was with them above two Months till the Cattle was taken ; and then he waslent to lay liege to Woreefter, with the help of the Northampton, andWarwick, and Newport-Pannel Soldiers, who had atfrfted him at Banbury. At Worceder he lay in liege eleven Weeks : and at the fame time the Army being come up from the Weft, lay in fiege at Oxford. By this time Col. Whalley, though Cromwell's Kinfman and Commander of the Trailed Regiment, grew odious among the Sedtarian Commanders at the Head- quarters for my fake ; and hewas called a Presbyterian, though neither he nor I were 55
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