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and Sir Bevil Grenville as they lay in the valley below, and whose 
numbers consequently could no longer be disguised. 
Sir William now moved from the Bath side of Lansdown to the 
further side which looks towards Frisnoll Hill, and there quickly 
raised breastworks of faggots, earth, straw, or any and every other 
thing available, behind which to put his newly joined country 
men. From this point he saw his enemy moving towards Toghill, 
so fitly named just now, for there was a “fierce and furious 
toggling” there before they parted, and where about the “ leaping 
stock” was a plain leading towards Lansdown, 
The next day, being Wednesday the 5th July, early in the 
morning a part of the royalist force was seen to advance and halt 
in a hollow under the hill, and some skirmishing ensued with the 
respective outposts. About eight o’clock Sir William Waller sent 
out Captain Butler to drive them back, and following him went 
four hundred of Sir Arthur Haselrig’s cuirassiers, two hundred 
under Major Dowet as a support, and two hundred under Col. 
Carr as a reserve for both. Captain Butler quickly and success- 
fully drove in the foremost party and then advancing boldly 
charged in on the main body. His charge, most gallantly made, 
was as firmly received, but getting galled by the cannon he was 
soon compelled to withdraw. Doing this however in good order, 
he quickly rallied and reformed. Next, the Haselrig men were 
advanced, and charging with their usual success completely routed 
twob odies of horse, and forced them to retire in confusion for 
succour.* The great repute of these men for firmness and solidity 
so disheartened the defeated troopers that many deserted and ran. 
No encouragement of their officers could get them to show again 
with their usual confidence and indifference, and had not the 
foot protected them at this time they must have been almost 
annihilated. 
Sir Bevil Grenville with his Cornish foot and Sir Nicholas 
Slaning next advanced, but Waller by this time had lined the 
* Mercurius Aulicus, 
