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With respect to the number slain in this engagement, not 
a very sanguinary one, it has been variously estimated at 
from 5,000 to 500. It is probable that the latter number 
more nearly approaches the mark. The battle commenced 
at two o’clock in the afternoon on the 23rd of October, old 
style, answering to our 8rd of November. At five in the 
evening darkness would set in; both armies were then in 
confusion. Many, on both sides, both horse and foot, ran 
away, thus verifying the old distich:— 
‘He who in battle runs away, 
May live to fight another day; 
But he who is in battle slain, 
Will never live to fight again.” 
The artillery, or ordance, were pieces of small calibre, and 
mounted on carriages of two wheels only. One of these 
is still preserved at Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire. The 
infantry consisted of musketeers, armed with matchlocks, 
supported on rests, shrouded within a square of pikemen. 
One, if not more, of these rests are in the valuable collection 
of the Earl of Warwick, at Warwick Castle. 
Some of the cavalry wore cuirasses, consisting of a breast- 
plate and back and a head-piece; others wore buff coats, their 
offensive weapons being swords and pistols. Birmingham, 
even at that period, was famous for its manufactories of 
swords. 
In a scarce work, entitled ‘“‘True Information of the 
Beginning and Cause of our Troubles, &c.,” printed at Lon- 
don in the year 1648, there appears an engraving represent- 
ing the battle of Edgehill, the earliest pictorial representation 
of that battle. In this representation the cannon appear 
mounted on carriages with two wheels only. The following 
statement appears at the head of this pictorial device :—“At 
Edgehill 16 peeces of cannon shot against 80 of E: of Essex 
Liffeguard, and not one man hurte, & those 80 brake in upon 
