sent in a letter from the deputy lieutenants to the House of Commons, Decemb. 8 ; wherein is declared the full proceedings of the cavaleirs against the Parliaments forces in the said county, from the 4 of Decemb. to the 9, 1642 ; also a full relation of the besieging of Plymouth by the Lord Grandison, the L. Digby, and Commissarie Wilmont, with 9000 men ; and how they were beaten off by the Parliament forces that were within the town, killing about 850, the Lord Digbie being shot through the shoulder with a musquet bullet
Date
Decemb. 10, 1642
Series
Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 249:E.129, no. 30