hundred, and tooke fourteene hundred prisoners. l~oure hundred horse broke away to an army of their friends, bigger · then Fairfax his, who saw the towne taken, yet had not the courage to engage against the ge~erall, in the reliefe of it, but after they saw his victory dispers'd. 'fhe Lord Goring then having rallied about two thousand of these Kentish men, led them to Greenwich, from whence he sent to trie the affections of the Londoners; but while he stay'd there expecting their answer, some troopes of the armie came, upon the ·sight of whom, he and his men fled. The Kentish men, most of them to their owne houses, himselfe, with about five hundred horse, getting boate, crosst the Thames into Essex, where the Lord Cape! with forces out of Hertfordshire, and Sr. Charles Lucas with a body of horse at Chelmsford, ioyn'd him, to whom; in a short time, d'ivers that had bene the king's souldiers, many Londoners; and other mallignants, flocked in. · Generall Fairfax, with part of his forces, crossed the Thames at Gravesend, ar1d sending for all the rest out of Kent and London, pursued the enemies and drove them into Colchester, where he besieg'd them, and lay before them three months. At last, hearing of the defeate of Duke Hamilton and the Scotts, and other of the king's partizans, and being reduc'd to eating of horse-flesh, without hopes of reliefe, they yielded to mercy. The general! shott Sr. Charles Lucas, and Sr. George !,isle to death upon the place, and reserv'd Goring, Capell, and others, to abide the doome of the parliament. While Fairfax · was thus employed in Kent and Essex, Langhorne, Powell, and Poyer, celebrated commanders of the parliament side, revolted with the places in their command, and gott a body of eight thousand vVelchmen, whom Coli. Horton, with three thousand, encounter'd; vanquish!, routed and tooke as many prisoners as h'e had souldiers; but Langhorne and Powell escaped to Poyer, and shut up themselves with him in Pembroke Castle, a place so strong that they
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