Shelfmark
Gc.7.24(19)
Title
A true relation of a great and happy victory. Which it hath pleased God to give to his excellency the Earle of Essex, and his forces, over the Kings army, as it was brought to both Houses of Parliament, by the Lord Wharton and Mr. Strowd, on Wednesday in the afternooue [sic], Octob. 26. 1642. In which battell his maiesty lost sixe colours, and his standard, 5 wagons, laden with ammunition, and plate, a coach, 8 pieces of ordnance, and 3000 men, all which the Parliaments forces obtained with the losse of 300 on their side. Also they have taken the Lord Linsey, generall of the field, Sir Thomas Lunsford, Sir Edward Stradling, and Colonell Vavasor, who are now prisoners in Warwicke Castle. Whereunto is added a letter from a worthy divine, to the Right Honourable the Lord Maior, of the city of London, dated on Monday last from Warwicke Castle..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for Iohn Wright., Octob. 27. 1642..
Physical description
[8] p. ; 19 cm (4to)
Note
Title printed within decorated border; head- and tail-pieces.
Note
Signatures: A⁴.
Citation/references note
Wing, T2878
Citation/references note
ESTC, R25690
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College, undated, on front pastedown.
Binding
Sammelband. 17th-century speckled calfskin over ?pasteboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to form a border; gilt fillet on board edges. Spine re-backed, with blind and fillets and gilt titling over red morocco label ("Petitions etc. 1641, 2 Vol. VII"). Textblock trimmed and dyed red. Endpapers of modern undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock. 20th-century repairs by R.L. Day.
Copy-specific note
Bound with 100 other items.
Subject
Essex, Robert Devereux, 1591 - 1646 Earl of,
Subject
Charles, 1600 - 1649 I, King of England,
Subject
Great Britain Army
Subject
Edgehill, Battle of, England, 1642 Early works to 1800.
Subject
Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649, Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Wright, John, ? - -1658 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52464