| Title: | A letter from Sir William Waller, a member of the House of Commons, to the Right Honorable, Robert Earl of Essex his excellencie;: of a great victory he obtained at Malmsbury, 23. Martii, in the county of Wilts: with the names of divers of the commanders in chief that he took, with 300 foot, a troop of horse, and many peeces of ordnance. Also a true relation of Sergeant Major Burghells valour, who went into the enemies quarters at Sherston, routed them, took twenty five prisoners, one captain, two lieutenants, one quarter-master, killed eight, and took forty or fifty horses and arms, without the losse of one man. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this letter be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cl. Parl. D. Com. |
| Author: | Waller, William, Sir, 1597?-1668 |
| Note: | London : Printed for Edw. Husbands, and are to be sold at his shop in the middle Temple, March 28. 1643 |
| Link: | HTML at EEBO TCP |
| No stable link: | This is an uncurated book entry from our extended bookshelves, readable online now but without a stable link here. You should not bookmark this page, but you can request that we add this book to our curated collection, which has stable links. |
| Subject: | Malmesbury (Wiltshire) -- Siege, 1643 |
| Subject: | Great Britain -- History |
| Subject: | Burghell, Sergeant Major |
| Subject: | Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646 |
| Other copies: | Look for editions of this book at your library, or elsewhere. |
Help with reading books -- Report a bad link -- Suggest a new listing
Home -- Search -- New Listings -- Authors -- Titles -- Subjects -- Serials
Books -- News -- Features -- Archives -- The Inside Story
Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom (onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu)
OBP copyrights and licenses.