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Relation, perhaps it may be usefull, if done speedily, you 
need not doubt of the truth of any part of it.” 
It does not appear by whom the above Relation was writ- 
ten except by a minister in the Parliamentarian Army. 
Subjoined are the following observations,— 
‘“‘ And besides the victory here at Keinton Field by Edge- 
hill on the Parliament side, done by his Excellencie, there 
were slaine of eminent men on the King’s side, the Earl of 
Lindsey who was wounded and taken prisoner, and brought 
40 Warwicke Castle, but soon dyed of his wounds: The 
Lord D’Aubigney (commonly called Dawbeny) brother to 
the Duke of Richmond and Lenox; Sir Edward Varney 
Knight, Marshall to his Majesty, and a little before at 
Nottingham made his Standard Bearer; of which three 
persons the letter doth not make mention: However, after 
their victory at Keinton Field, his Excellencie, as a Victor 
retreated and retired himself with his considerable army into 
Warwicke, and there he had the strongly scituated Towne 
and Castle for his better safety, during his abode there; 
where he was with the acclamations of all good people there 
triumphantly received and entertained.” 
Of all the great engagements during the Civil Wars, not 
excepting the decisive fight at Naseby, the battle of Edge- 
hill, or of Keinton, as it was indifferently called, seems to 
have excited the greatest interest. More accounts of it 
appear to have been published than of any other warlike 
occurrence. Both armies claimed the victory, but, as the 
result proved, the advantage was on the side of the King: for 
while the Earl of Essex withdrew his forces to Warwick, 
the King pursued his own route, and the following day or a 
few days after, the town and castle at Banbury, with a 
garrison variously computed at from 600 to 1,000 strong, 
surrendered to him without a show of opposition. 
