I Shall give you a Narration (according to my own observation, and the help of some of the Officers with me) both of the maner and success of our late ingage­ment with the enemy neer Saint Fagons. The enemy having drawn off from Saint Nicholas to Lankarven, Penmark and Ful­mun Castle, Friday the fifth of May. On the Lords day at night they advanced towards us again to Saint Nicholas; by which, we did presently apprehend, That they intended to fight with us, and were induced to such a belief the ra­ther, because they knew two days before, that Lieutenant General Cromwel was coming towards us. This made us draw in all our horse close that night, as we had done di­vers nights before, and prepare for the work in the morning; and about seven in the morning our Scouts discovered their Body about a mile and half from our quarters, upon which, [Page 4]we drew out, and took the best ground we could; Major Bethel commanded the horse on the right Wing, Major Barton on the left, and Colonel Okey and his Major with the Dragoons on both Wings with the horse; the enemy advanced fast with a strong forlorn of foot, and about six Pickering horse; Lieutenant Godfrey with a forlorn of thirty Horse and twenty Dragoons, charged and routed them, doing good execution, which gave us the advantage of a new ground; so we advanced with horse and foot up­on them, Captain Garland with two hundred fire-locks on foot, and Captain Nicholets (this Bearer) with Colonel Okeys own Troop of Dragoons mounted, with some horse on the right Wing, disputed the first encounter very hotly, where he shewed much resolution, and beat the enemy out of two Closes, and over a little Brook, and there maintain­ed their ground under command of the enemies shot, until the forlorn of foot, commanded by Captain Lieutenant Fan, and some horse from the left Wing, came to their relief, and then they beat the enemy from hedg to hedg before them, until they came to a Bridg, where the enemies greatest body of foot were placed: The horse all this while and Dragoons following this first success with much vigor, were constrain­ed to stand the enemies shot for sometime, before the foot (though they made great hast) could come up to them; and presently the first Division of foot commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Read fell close up to the enemies Front, Major Wade with the second Division got over the little Brook on the left Flank of the enemy, Major Barton like­wise with the left Wing of horse, with much celerity, past over a Boggy place and the little Brook, to second those foot; and some of the enemies horse coming on to charge the foot, were gallantly resisted and beaten back by Captain Hughs: By this time the horse and Dragoons on the right Wing were gotten over likewise, the enemies foot standing very stoutly to it, until our horse began to [Page 5]surround them, and then they presently all ran, and we cleared the field, our horse and Dragoons pursuing them for eight or ten miles. The enemies horse, which they say were five hundred, were imployed in their Rear, to keep up their foot, and we never saw after we were ingaged, above sixty horse in a Body, all the fight: Their whole number of horse and foot is confirmed to be about eight thousand; they had about two thousand and five hundred Muskettiers, by their own confession, besides Bills, Pikes and Clubs; we took up the day we fought above two thousand fire Arms, with Pikes, Welch Bills, and other weapons great store; ten Barrels of Powder, and all the rest of their Ammunition in the field, and most, if not all their Colours. The number of prisoners that are taken are about three thousand, I have here inclosed a List of the Officers as they gave in themselves to the Marshal; some hundreds of them were disarmed four or eight miles from the place we fought, which were let go. Captain Wogan a Member of the House of Commons, sent down by them into these parts, carried himself from the first to the last, with great resolu­tion, encouraging the souldiers, and engaging himself in the heat of the service: Captain Jones who came off from the enemy to me long since, with a Troop of sixty horse, be­haved himself likewise very well; as also all other Officers and Souldiers, I can truly say, kept their order in the per­formance of this service, to the admiration of the enemy, as some of them confest.

And that Gods mercy may be the more magnified in this late happy suecess over our enemies, I think it now season­able to make known unto you the straights we were in, and difficulties which compassed us about, we having a potent enemy, lying within two miles upon much advantage of ground, before us the high Mountains close to us, on the righthand the Sea neer unto us, on the left Chepstow taken and Monmouthshire beginning to rise in our Rear, besides [Page 6]our great want of provisions and long and hard duty; all which seemed to threaten our sudden ruine, That God should please in this condition, so to own us, as to make a way for us through the midst of our enemies, and to scatter them every way, is a mercy not to be forgotten, especially by those who have more immediately tasted of it, witnessing the truth of these things as they are herein expressed by