The Welch-mans publike recantation: or, His hearty sorrow for taking up of armes against her Parliament.: Declaring to all the world how her hath been abused by faire words, and such adullations and flatterings, telling her what booties and prizes her should get, and what victories her should obtaine, and what honour it would be to her and her country if her would but conduct her King to White Hall neer London. Withall, advising all her country-men to take up no more armes against her Parliament to defend the commission of array; the divell take the array. Commanded to be published.

The Welch-mans publick Recantation, or his hearty sorrow for taking up of Armes against her Parliament.

MAy it please all and every one that shall cast her good and favourable eyes uppon this sheetes of papers, to know and beleeve that all her Country∣men of Wales by whatsoever appellations they be called are wonderfully sorry for her late temerities and rashnesse, whereunto the Divell owing her a spight led her blind-fold, for her doe with teares over-flowing her cheekes, and drowning her hearts inward and outward ac∣knowledg and confesse, (which her will not doe at a Sessions, for feare of hanging) that her was very strangly deceived by politique jeeres, flaterries, and temtations, to make walkes and preambu∣lations out of her Countries of Wales, to kill and fight with her know not whom, and her have curst her selfe many dayes toge∣ther in Welch for being such simple puppyes, to be carried away by witchcrafts as her thinks, and as it will appeare in her lamenta∣ble and pitifull recantations, which her doe now intend to make, out of the goodnesse of her Brittish blood, and valiant disposi∣tion a great while agoe, her was perswaded to put on her armes, and to march with great courage and magnanimesties upon great businesse, and matters of high and generous consequences as her conceived to conduct and bring her good and gracious King to her Parliament, and that his person might be secured from all indignities and injuries, for which her will spend her best blood in her bellies, her being true Brittaine and love her King, and prince with all integrities, and all her hearts, but after her had consen∣ted

to goe in warlike fashions, her was led away in a fooles para∣dizes, to fall by the swords of her enemies, and to make her ap∣pearances in Kenton Battailes, where there was nothing but kil∣ling and slaying of all persons, without respect of degrees and petidegrees, and ancient Gentlemen and Lords were in as much pericles and dangers as her poorest Country-men; Lord blesse us, Guns went off like a clutter of haile stumbling downe from her old Regiments in Wales, when her cousen Boreas swagges and domineers on her Mountaines, and was great deluges and overflowings of bloud which was spilt, to make the ground blush for inhumanities and mercilesse cruelty, and bullets flew about her eares as commonly as if her should have told her some tale and bid her beware, but her could not take heed of her comming, but those round pellots hit her in invisible miracu∣lous manners her know not how, but her Country-men was kil∣led and slaine and died like rotten Muttons, before her could make her Inventories and Wills to all her loving Cosens, her was strooke dead without giving her leave to send commenda∣tions of her selfe and her valour to her Country-men: and Saint Winifreds Well could not flow in greater big streames then her saw bloud run in streames mingled with vulgars and Shentlemens blood, her could not know her consanguinity nor her Cusen gentle blood, but was all running out of her vaines and bellies, her cannot make terrible descriptions of awle these cruell fights, and horible Battailes, which her was spectators and beholders of, but her can tell, that her was never put into such astonish∣men's, and amazements, in all her dayes, for her cannot with all her fancyes, and imaginations set out her Pictures, and deadly representations of this hot skirmish, her know not about what, but meere piples, and papiles, and words, such as her never knew about Pregorgatives, and Commissiones of Array, her doe not know, but her was ready to her breeches, bewray her∣selfe, without authorities, but upon plaine necessities, and feares

and frights; but her is now in all humility and submision ready and desirous to crave pardon for her following and obeying the Comission of Array; her thought like the poor dog, that her was going to a breake-fast, when her was going to hanging, her thought to have marched out of her Country, onely so bring the King and Parliament to meete lovingly, but by the way, many thousand Divells met us, and spet fire against us, and sent us such hot answers, as bounce bounce, that her was al∣most deafe, and was lamed in all her sences, so that her thought her should never heare her Welch Harps more melodiously playing: and besides the smoke of gunpowder spoiled her sto∣mack, that her did wish her had been tosting Cheese by the fire side in her own Country, there her could fight at country Machets, and crack her Cosens crowne, and hee rook it for good payment for a Welch Runt: but here at Kinton, our Crownes were crackt, and yet they would be content; but wee must pay our owne deare lives, and keep us from running home to Wales, though our leggs was as good and better than their hearts. Her was truely conformed before her went out of her Countrey, that her should get honour, and great store of pillage, and good pay for her labour, By Gods plutra nayles, her had such good pay, that her desire never to be so payd againe; the Red∣coats did so pay her, that her was fain to run from her pay, mark her that now, her could have found better occupying at home, and better payment made there, then her did at this Kynton bat∣tell, for her lost one arm, and almost one legge, in so much that her shall never deale truly, nor go uprightly with her best friends; Yet her do much thank her Fates in that her hath but one hand, for now her can pilfer and stease but halfe so much with one, as her could before with two; & so her shall not be hanged so soone as her should, if her had 2 hands. Her was likely drilled to Coven∣try, & it was told her that it was a very rich town, and good store of pillage was therein, and that hee should have fine shirts and

fine sheetes, her must confesse that put her into some heart to get some shirts, for her had never a one of her back, but a couple of borrowed napkins tacked together, and so put upon her shoulders, and with never a sleeve, and those her wore 4. moneths, in so much that her had neere threescore & two Moabites about her, besides Nitites and Jebusites, which leapt like our Welch goate over the pales and over the mountaines, when we hunt her for Venison.

And for her running away, her think is very good wis∣domes, for her do remember her welsh proverb, de huma Comrade, bo in daneth Whee, that is, one paire of heeles is worth two paire of hands: yet her can shustifie that her Country-men did not face about and runne away the first, but did stoutely stand to it, and for her part, her did but wink twice in shooting thrice her gun off with a pellet in it, but her was in such a sweat with it, as if it had bin Saint Taffies day when all her cheeses are set to the fire to roast for joy.

And her tell her that for her own credite, that it was the English man that first run away; and it doth much re¦joyce her heart to heare, that not only some of her Coun∣trymen run away, but that divers English Captaines not being content to run away on foot, but rode away like cowards upon their horse backs, and with the Parliaments money also, bidding their souldiers shift for themselves, for they were all lost men. Nay her do caknow them very well, there was one Captaine Ramsey and Captaine Frith, and another Captain called Richard Parker, who lookes like Bul-beefe, & would have frighted her with her looks, her do warrant her, but her like a coward run away, and did not like an honest man go throgh-stich with his worke; such a rascall would be hanged if her was in our Country, yet her would not have him hanged, for that would spoile his whistling, for if all run-aways should be hanged, what

would become of her none selfe: But her would have him marked for a white-liver'd slave, and where her had a horse of 12. l. price; her should have one of 12. s. the next time, and her Lord General should serve the souldiers as her co∣zen Iulius Caesar did when her first entred England, broght all his men in ships, and when he had landed them, com∣manded the ships to be sent home again, so that they had no hope left of running away, but to stand to it, and fight like men, or dye like cowards; So her would have her Par∣liament let none of her Captains have horses above 10. s. price, that if they offer to flye or run away, they may soon be overtaken and punished: or so branded that they may be taken notice of for fugitives: for her owne part (alas poor Taffie) all that her could get for guarding up her K. to the Parliament was the losse of one of her armes, and almost one of her legs, the Tivell rake her commission of Array, and her also, if ever her fight again for the Array, for it made her in a wofull case; I would I had her stones between her anvill at home, that first invented or found out the commission of Array, but I will conclude, as her cozen Sir Francis Jones did upon the Sessions house bench when her cozen was condemn'd to be hang'd, hee starting up hearing her Counteyman cry for mercy, said it is well you scape so too, so say I it is well I scaped so too, and so her will march home to his own Countrey.

The welch mens new Oath

IN considerations therefore of the premizes bloody and cruell, beyond all comparrisons and stories of all ancient fights, wee the old Brittaines doe here, from the bottom and top of our hearts, which doe trouble her yet to thinke on that Battaile, doe here promise and take an hundred Oaths upon bookes, that we will never here∣after be so mad, as to goe a gathering of wooll, or wealth, or moneyes, upon the wayes of pillaging and plundering,

and getting good estates, and apparrell, by the comission of Array, her will rather goe in her country habit, rather then to venture for the good apparrel & get nothing but knocks, nay and loose her life, and march bare footed, a∣gainst her good friends, the Parliaments forces; and her desire that the Parliament would not take their forward∣nesse to assist these Commissioners of Array, as a con∣tempt against all their honours and urships, for her will hang her selfe, if ever her be seduced and led away to look our Army in the face againe, or to fall to blowes in open field, where her blood was like to have been shed, had not her being wiser then the rest, run away, & so having scap'd with her life, hath made this Recantation, and doth desire all the worships of the parliament, to pardon her great te∣merities and erours in standing for the Commission of Ar∣ray, and her doe vow and make protestation, that hereaf∣ter her will be wise and discreet in the effusion of her true brittish plood, and will upon all occasions handle her arms and legs in defending the Protestant Religion, bee they what they will, and her King and Countrey, this is her true Resolution and Recantation.