The copy of a letter from Alisbvry : directed to Colonell Hampden, Colonell Goodwin and read in both Houses of Parliament, May 18, 1643 : relating how His Maiesty hath sent 12 or 1400 of his forces under the command of the Earle of Cleveland, Lord Shandosse, the Lord Crayford and Sir Iohn Byron into those parts who amongst many other cruelties fired a countrey towne called Swanborne in seven places, murdered diverse and amongst the rest one woman big with child was cut in pieces by them : with an ordinance concerning the Arch-bishop of Canterbury.