[420] Sprigge’s England’s Recovery 32. In Ludlow (Memoirs 151) things are related not without some confusion.
[421] Walker, Historical Discourses 129.
[422] Digby to Legge. ‘So did your fate lead, as scarcely one of us did think of a queer objection, which after the ill success every child could light on.’ This correspondence (Warburton iii. 127) gives the best insight. I combine the narrative of both parties.
[423] Sprigge: ‘The colonels and officers endeavouring to keep their men from disorder, and finding their attempt fruitless therein.’
[424] Wogan: ‘Rossiter’s horse that came to us at that present.’
[425] Wogan: ‘Seeing all their horse beaten out of the field, and surrounded with our horse and foot, they laid down their arms with condition not to be plundered.’
[426] Clarendon iv. 48 (edition of 1849) himself remarks on this battle that the capacity to rally after being beaten disclosed the better discipline which had been introduced by Fairfax and Cromwell.
[427] Journals of Commons, 23 June-7 July.
[428] To Nicholas, 25 Aug. 1645. ‘Let my condition be never so low, I resolve by the grace of God never to yield up this church to the government of papists, Presbyterians, or independents, nor to injure my successors by lessening the crown of that ecclesiastical and military power which my predecessors left me, nor to forsake my friends.’
[429] ‘Who took the occasion to write the ensuing letter to the prince with his own hand, which was so lively an expression of his own soul.’ Clarendon, Hist. iv. 679.