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Loving Cofen, Y best respects remembred : Having got a fit opportuni tie in these miserable distraced times, by my Some to write unto you, I thought fit to give you a touch of the’miserab‘e nd condition of our poor County of V Wiles, being almost all o ver distressed with continual vexation of plundering, by fou diers of the Kings Forces. I can hardly enough expresse our sad condition, we live in Blackmore Forret and about the Devisles, in which Town the Castle is made a Garifon, commanded by Colonel Floyd for the King : [ts foudiers rove round about our Country, where our misery is such, that we are forced to pay them moneys to eat up our provisions of victuals , cates, hay, and such like , for we must slow every common fouldier fixe pence by the day besides diet, twelve pence every Sergeant , eighteen pence the Lieutenants and Ensignes, and halfea Crown to the Captaines . And to ade further misery to our countrey, the old Collonel Floyd with a partee of Horse and Foot, came from the Devises some tct dayes since , to Bramum , two little miles from thence, where they utterly destroyed by fire, one of the fa mousest buildings in the Western parts, Sir Edward Bayntons House, a Member of the Parliament, it being a stately Fabrick of Scone,nothing now being left standing but V Walls and Chim neys . With great flore of very rich furniture, I suppose fiftie or three core thousand pounds cannot repair the lofle, it is a great grief to our Neighbours. W When these troubles of quartering, Billetting, and plundering will cease, know not , I pray God in his good time send an issue to them. So with the prayers of my selfe and mine for you all, desiring the like from you, take my leaves and rest your loving Kinsman till death : Blackmore Forrest, 24 the Parish of A Milfbam. E, Ky
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Protestant Mercury
London, Middlesex, GB
Sun, Jun 04, 1645
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