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A famous victory obtained before the city of Exeter, on Sunday Ianuary 1. by Captaine Pym, against Sir Ralph Hopton, and the Cornish cavaliers : where after foure houres fight, he obtained a glorious victory, and slew above a thousand of the cavaliers, and tooke 38. prisoners, and 7. pieces of ordnance, with the losse of a hundred men at the most. Being the copie of a letter, sent from Lievetenant Hyword, to his worthy friend, inhabiting in the Citie of London. Bearing date January 2. 1643.

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Main Author:	Hyword, Abel
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[London] : January 6. Printed for I.H. and T. Finch, 1643.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Hopton, Ralph Hopton, > Baron, > 1598-1652 > Early works to 1800. Pym, Alexander, > d. 1660 > Early works to 1800. Exeter (England) > History > Early works to 1800. Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649 > Campaigns > Early works to 1800.
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A True relation of a late victorie obtained by Sir Ralph Hopton against my Lord of Stamfords forces in Cornwall : which, through the mercifulnesse of the Generall Sir Ralph Hopton, was gotten with little blood-shed : the like victory cannot be paralleld in the memory of man : being the copy of a letter written from Saltash /
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The Examination of Sir Ralph Hopton, Sir Iohn Winter, Sir John Stowell : with two other knights upon their knees at the barre in the House of Commons the 14 day of this instant October : with the articles of high treason exhibited against them by the House of Commons.
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by: Prescot, Giles
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The Lord Marquesse of Hertford, his letter, sent to the Queen in Holland : also a letter from the committee in Sommersetshire, to the Houses of Parliament, with a copy of their message to Marquesse Hertford, and his men assembled in arms at Shepton-Mallet, his answer thereunto, and their resolution upon the same : likewise the information that both houses received from a merchant in Roterdam, relating how divers captains and other officers upon a letter from the Queen to the Prince of Orange, are by him discharged, and sent over into England for His Majesties service in the North, and how the papists there have given to the King two hundred thousand pound in mony, with sundry other matters of great concernment : whereunto is added, certain votes of the Lords and Commons in Parliament, for the apprehending and bringing up, Sir Ralph Hopton, Master Thomas Smith, Captain John Digby, members of the House of Commons, with Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Sir Francis Dodington, and some others as delinquents.
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Published: (1642)