I envy none the honour they deservedly got in this battle; nor am I ambitiously desirous of a branch of their laurel. But I see no reason to be excluded [from] the Lists: in which I underwent equal hazards with any others that day.
But [it] being my lot to be cast upon many disadvantages, having command of the Right Wing, with much difficulty I could get but 5 Troops in order: with which I charged the Enemy's Left Wing; when the business was hotly disputed a long time, at [the] sword's point. We broke through; and had the chase of many of them.
But, indeed, the rest of the Horse, [that] I could not draw up to charge with me, were soon routed with that part of the Enemy we left behind.
But to shew that some did their parts: having routed some of the Enemy, and taken Goring's Major General prisoner; few of us came off without dangerous wounds; and many [of them] were mortal.
Which shews that the Right Wing did not wholly leave the Field; as the Author of that book relates.
F. Grose, Antiquarian Repertory, 2nd Ed., III., p. 31, 1808, 4.
George Villiers,
second Duke of Buckingham.
An Epitaph on
Thomas, third Lord Fairfax.
[A Third Collection of...Poems, Satires, Songs, &c. against Popery and Tyranny. London, 1689. 4to.
[Lord Fairfax, the great General on the side of the Parliament, died in 1671; and his son-in-law, the Writer of this Epitaph, in 1688. Villiers never wrote a nobler Poem, irregular though it be.]
Under this stone does lie
One born for Victory,
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