A great victorie obtained at Saffron-Walden in Cambridge-shire, : by the forces under the command of the Lord Generall Fairfax and Lieutenant Generall Cromwel, against the cavaliers commanded by Col. Muschamp (a Scotch-man) who within three days had been 5000 strong. Five hundred horse totally routed, Col. Muschamp slain, with divers others, and severall officers and souldiers taken prisoners. Likewise Gorings resolution to the Lord Generall concerning the trayned bands of Essex and 300 horse escaped out of the towu [sic] of Colchester, with divers great commanders who brake through the Parliaments forces. Also, the sentence of death passed on every 13 prisoner being a batcheler taken in Essex, and on every tenth marryed man; likewise on every fifth Kentish man, or Londoner.