[A Hympne of Thanksgiving]

A Hympne of Thanksgiving, composed by John Roe (who in an Acquittance upon receipt of money for his Tithes, stiled himselfe by the providence of God, and appointment of four Committe-men of Coventrie, Mininster of Shustoke) sung in Shustoke church upon the 7th of September a [nn] o 1648 being the day appointed for a solemn thanksgiving for the victory over the Scotts, and other successes by the parliamt. Forces^*^*at Preston in Lancashire

Awake awake o parliament
 Rise Cromwell sing a Song;
 Leade Captive thy Captivitie
 Come lead them all along

The Shores and Conpellations all
 Gainph Hainilton did fight
 The River swept them down her streams
 My soule th’haft bode down might

Their Scotch confederats look’e (as looke
 Bless be the Lord they may
 But all invaine, for they return
 enrich wth spayles and prey

So perish those, that […] thy faes
 But Lord let all their Lovers
 Be like the Sun, when Day’s begun
 And brighte […] beames discovers

Sing pinyfes England to the Lord
 That hath avenged thee
 when as the people went to fight
 Offering themselves so free. 

Ye kings give ease, ye people […]
 I even I will sing
 And sweetly raise my voice in praise
 To England’s God and king. 

My Heart is toward the Governments
 That did their hope afford
 Offering themselves so willingly
 Wherefore bless ye the Lord

Ye travailers and passengers
 And ye that aide in shire
 And ye that yet in judgement silt
 Now speake it in the Gate. 

All they that are delivered
 from Cannons thundering noise
 The righteous acts of God the Lord
 They shall rehearse wth joys

The passengers were wanderers
 In by paths up and downe
 And none could dwell in England well
 But in a walled towne

God sleeps not though he holds his tongue
 Sometimes, when furiously
 His hatefull foes in […] throng
 And lift their hands on high

Most swifty councill they have time
 Amongst us all at once
 Consulting how to worke the bane
 Of all they hidden ones

Come let us cut them off, […] they
 And leave no man behinde
 So that the name of Roundheads may
 No more remembrance finde

Against us all they have combin’d
 Advis’d wth joyn […] confent
 The Welsh the Scotts, the Surreyans
 with those that dwell in front

Speed

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Speed they O Lord, as Lindsay who

was slayn in Kineton feild

As Colchester compell them all

with shame to stoope and yeild.

Do to them as to [...] 
Whose force thy power suprem
 Gave some to th' sword & some to bond
 And some swept down the stream

So we thy flock &c

Mr Wm Dugdale

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TextSong copied out by Sir William Dugdale : a digital edition

Author[unknown]

Extent one leaf of manuscript Note: complete

ResponsibilityEdited by Jennifer Patterson.

EditionTaylor edition

SeriesTaylor Editions: Manuscript

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Transcribed from: Bodleian Libraryshelfmark MS. Eng. c. 7963, fol. 71. Images scanned from Bodleian Library shelfmark MS. Eng. c. 7963, fol. 71.

This is a facsimile and transcription of Song copied out by Sir William Dugdale . Shelf mark: MS. Eng. c. 7963, fol. 71

The transcription was encoded in TEI P5 XML by Jennifer Patterson.

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. c. 7963, fol. 71

The hymn celebrates the Battle of Preston (1648), which ended with a victory of the Parliamentarians under the command of Oliver Cromwell over the Royalists and Scots led by the Duke of Hamilton during the Second English Civil War. It is noted in what seems a calligraphic hand of Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686), an antiquary, herald and Royalist. Dugdale credits John Roe as the composer, however, the indentity of this John Roe is difficult to ascertain. The hymn has 17-strophe with the last being supposedly incomplete.

Physical description

Codex. Parchment

History

Written in Coventry, England in the 17th cent.

Languageeng

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Created by encoding transcription from manuscript.

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This transcription is a diplomatic one, the original spellings have been kept the same. All legible text on the paper have been included in this transcription. The exception to this are the symbols used before each stanza as there is no written meaning only the visual. This can be seen in the images provided. Where the text was too illegible to be able to read, this has been indicated with the use of [...].