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army, this mirror of chivalry espied six men (three cuiras- 
siers and three arquebusiers) on horseback, guarding a 
seventh on foot, who was carrying off the field a colour 
rolled wp, which he conceived to be one of the ordinary 
colours of his Majesty’s Life Guards, and therefore, seeing 
them so strong, intended to avoid them; whilst he was 
thus considering, a boy on horseback calls to him, saying, 
‘Captain Smith, Captain Smith, they are carrying away 
the Standard!’ He would not suddenly believe the boy, 
till by great asseverations he had assured him it was the 
Standard ; who forthwith said, ‘They shall have me with 
it if they carry it away,’ and desiring Chickley if he saw 
him much engaged, in with his rapier at the footman that 
carried the banner (who was then secretary to Essex, the 
rebels’ general), saying, ‘Traitor! deliver up the Standard,’ 
and wounded him in the breast. Whilst he was bent for- 
ward to follow his thrust, one of those cuirassiers with a 
yole-axe wounded him in the neck through the collar of 
lis donblet, and the rest gave fire at him with their pistols, 
but without any further hurt than blowing of some powder 
into his face. No sooner was he recovered upright but he 
ynade a thrust at the cuirassier that wounded him, and 
run lim throngh the belly, whereupon he presently fell, at 
which sight all the rest ran away. Then he caused a foot 
soldier that was near at hand to reach him up the banner, 
which he brought away, with the horse of that cuirassier. 
Immediately comes up a great body of his Majesty’s horse, 
which were rallied together, with whom he staid, delivering 
the Standard to Master Robert Hatton, a gentleman of 
-8ir Robert Willyes’s troop, to carry forthwith to his 
Majesty. The next morning, King Charles sent for him 
to the top of Edgehill, where his Majesty knighted him 
for his singular valor.”’ He subsequently, with a small 
party of horse, brought off three brass pieces of cannon 
that stood about the left wing of the rebels’ army in the 
battle. This worthy knight banneret, on the 29th of 
March, 1644, was mortally wounded in an engagement at 
Bramdean, near Aylesford, in Hampshire, and died the 
following day at Andover, and on the first of April his 
body was interred with military honours in the south-east 
corner of the chapel on the south side of the choir in 
Oxford Cathedral. There is one singular occurrence con- 
nected with this battle, which ought to be noticed. On 
the extreme north-western point of the Burton Dassett 
ills, which project into the vale of Kineton, was and still 
