of theirs; and truly, not long after, before there was any near Execution, there was three or four of our Regiments fairly ran away. I shall name you the Particulars, and afterwards name you thofe that did the extraordinary Service, whereof you will find those of this City to have been very extraordinary Inftruments. There were that ran away, Sir William Fairfax's Regiment, Sir Henry Cholmley's and my Lord Mandevil's, and, to say the plain truth, my own; thefe ran away.

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Gentlemen, you fee by this time, I am like to tell you the Truth, I hope of thing; but yet I must say this, That though they did fo, yet I hope there will be very convenient and very good Number of them got together again, that may fhew themfelves in better Condition, and better Way of Service than yet they have done; I hope fo, and by the Bleffing of God it may be fo, for they are but young Soldiers, and we have feen very good Experience of fome of them, that have this laft Battle done very extraordinary and gallant Service: Not long after there was a Charge upon the left Wing of the Horse, and there I conceive there was a matter of eighteen or nineteen Troops, and truly, I cannot fay they did fo well as they fhould, though I hope there are not many of them cut off neither, but that they will be brought together again to do very good Service hereafter; but fo it is, they had the

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worft of it, and by this you will see that at the Beginning of the Day we might think it would not prove fo well as it pleafed God it did afterwards in the Close of the Day, for four Troops were divided, and one part of the Horse were not in good Order; but it pleafed God now to fhew himself, for after they had pafs'd the left Wing of our Horfe, I cannot fay it was in any Hands, but God's own Providence, the Horfe that had pafs'd through them follow'd them in part, and went to the Town where all our Baggage was; the Baggage of the Officers and the private Perfons of the Army, not they of the Artillery, but the Colonel's Carts, and the Captain's Carts, and fuch Provision as that, and there they took a Bait upon our Pillage, and fell a plundering; all that while the reft of the Army was a fighting, and indeed my Lord General had fome more lofs than ordinary, by fome Clothes and Money he had there; but we may thank God they were away, for thereby the reft of the Army had the better Opportunity to do that Service they Did.

My Lord General himself, upon this Extremity did begin to fhew himself to more than an ordinary Man, and indeed I think more than I have heard tell of any Man, for he charged up at several times, once with his own Troop of Horfe, as I remember, but I am fure with his own Regiment of Foot, which was raised here in Effex; and tho' fo

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many ill Paffages happened before, with his own Providence and Encouragement, and the Encouragement of others, his own Troop of Horfe fell upon the King's own Regiment, (which they had moft Hopes of) which they called the Red Regiment, after a fore and bitter Fight (for to give them their due, they fought very well, thofe of my Lord of Effex his Regiment, and those Horfe I fpake of before) they killed the King's Standard-bearer, Sir Edward Varney, they took the King's Standard which was raised up against the Parliament, and it was brought my Lord General, and he delivered it to a Servant, which was not fo careful as he ought to have been, but it was not taken by Force, but by the Carelesness and Negligence of fome Perfons, but it was gotten by Force and loft thus. They took likewife the King's General Prisoner, and carried him away; they took Prisoner my Lord General's Son, my Lord Willoughby, that Perfon you have heard fo much of, and been fo well acquainted with here, Col. Lunsford, which should have had the Tower, he was likewise taken Prifoner, and his Brother flain, and Sir Edward Stradling Prifoner, and divers others of Quality, my Lord Aberney and Col. Vavafour, and Sir Edward Monory, a Scotchman of great Quality; while these were upon this Service, I muft give the Right to divers other of the Officers of the Horfe, which were upon the right Wing, that they did extraordinary

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Service too, that was my Lord of Bedford himfelf, who did very gallantly, and Sir William Belfore, the late Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir Philip Stapleton, and all the Troops which formerly had been under fome other kind of Report, they did extraordinary Service, kept intirely to their Charge, and though they were long under the Power of the others Canons, there were fome feventeen Shot of Cannon-fhot against them, and they flood ftill, and God bethanked, not a Man of them hurt; yet there was likewife very extraordinary Service performed by my Lord Gray and Sir Arthur Hazelrig, who indeed was a Help to give a great Turn to the Day, by cutting off a Regiment of the King's, which was called the Blew Regiment; and there were many other Gentlemen of great Worth, that did very extraordinary Service too; I would not have you underftand that others did not do it, because I re member not their Names, for I fpeak to you now but on the fudden, but there were di vers others did very great Service, only these I have named that come to my Memory, and you will hear more of the reft upon other Occafions: Upon the Clofe of the Day, we know it for certain, that the beft Regiment of the King's was cut off, and the next his best Regiment, which was that under my Lord of Linfey; there was all the Prisoners taken I told you of, there were thofe Perfons

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of Quality flain I told you of, and there was, as we conceive (this I tell you upon Information, as we conceive, and are informed by the Country Men, that faw them bury the Dead next Day, and bring them up into Heaps, there was, as is informed and conceived) about three thousand of theirs flain; and we cannot believe nor we cannot have any Information, to give us Reason to believe, that there was above three hundred of ours flain: And this was to be observed of God's Providence in this Day's Work, that though it began fo improbably, yet before the Close of the Night, which was two Hours (for they began to fight indeed but about four a Clock) we had got the Ground that they were upon, we had gotten the Wind, and we do not know, nor by Information conceive, that there was twenty Men of ours killed by all the King's Cannon: When it was Night, that there could be no fighting, we drew out Forces together, and fo likewife did the King; they were then but at a reasonable Diftance, it may be three times, or fix times, or fome fuch Distance of this Room; but in the Night, the Forces of the King withdrew up towards the Hill, from whence they came; and my Lord General, amongst others, fent my self for to bring on those Forces which I told you were a Day's March behind (which was Colonel Hambden, and Colonel Grantham, and

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