from Newcastle's bed in York 9 March

A proclamation at York to the Royalist army there... Brave fellows, the king is grateful for your service in the victory at Bramham, on the third of this month. It was only nightfall that prevented Rupert from delivering Fairfax and Manchester to us in entirety. Although it fell to you men to endure the worst of the enemy’s work, do not be dispirited: you held well, against greater numbers, and if God chose nightfall to spare the traitors to their king the ultimate sentence it is surely only to give us another chance to gain even greater glory Newcastle