ANTIQUITIES, 



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^ John Hussey came, by order of 

 " the prince, to cominand me to re- 

 «' tire to York." 



" In that great action, the relief 

 " of Pontefract, I had some share. 

 *' At the battle of Payday, where I 

 " had three horses killed under me, 

 " I staid with the last in the field, 

 " and the retreat that was made I 

 '' made it, the pursuit being of ten 

 " miles continuance: at the end of 

 '^ which, I beat the enemy's for- 

 " lorn, which was commanded by 

 ** two captains of Sir Robert Pye's 

 " regiment, the one of which was 

 " slftin, and the other I brought 

 " prisoner to the king at Leicester." 

 " At the battle of Rowton-heath, 

 *' after several conflicts with Poyntz, 

 " it came to Sir JMarmaduke Lang- 

 " dale's brigade, which I com- 

 " manded to charge, with which I 

 " proposed to enter upon Poyntz 

 " his ground ; which Sir Marma- 

 '' duke thought feasible; buthaving 

 " signals sufficient for a victory, and 

 " being peremptorily commanded 

 " to keep his ground until a ccr- 

 " tain hour, that we were com- 

 " manded to march to assault 

 *' the enemy in the suburbs of 

 " Chester, he thought he could not 

 *' answer it, although he had the 

 " fortune to beat Poyntz." 



" After we had fought the enemy 

 " several hours, when the time came 

 " for our marching to Chester, 1 

 " was commanded out of the middle 

 '' of a lane, where 1 was drawn up 

 " betwixt a heath that Poyntz stood 

 *' upon, and Rowton-heath." 



" As soon as I was drawn uj), 

 *' and that wo began our route to- 

 " wards Chester, Poynfz came upon 

 *' our ground : and both horse and 

 '( foot came to his aid from Chester, 

 , " which forced us to face about and 

 *' fight. In my advaucing to charge 



" colonel Graves's regiment of re- 

 " formers, I received three vollies 

 " of shot from the Chester foot, 

 " that were planted in hedges upon 

 " my left hand, which so shattered 

 " my body, that they did not second 

 " me, when I was prcst into the 

 " enemy's, where I had my horse 

 " killed under me, and was hurt." 



" In the insurrection that was 

 " made in forty-eight, in the ab- 

 " sence of Sir Marmaduke Lang- 

 " dale, I had the command of York- 

 " shire ; but, for his majesty's ser- 

 " vice, I was willing to Mave that 

 " honour, and made a triumvirate 

 " of that command by making 

 " major general Byron, and colonel 

 " Robert Portington sharers with 

 " me, because I thought they would 

 " be more diligent in the service by 

 " having an equal concern with me, 

 " than under my command." 



" Having an invitation into Lin* 

 " colnshire, where we were pro- 

 " mised a conjunction of forces out 

 " ofNorfolk,Leicestershire and that 

 " country we marched to Lincoln, 

 " where we took the place by 

 " storm, with two hundred men, 

 " and a good quantity of arms and 

 " ammunition, with which we 

 " marched towards Regwith, in lici- 

 " ccstershire, where we were pro- 

 " mised a conjunction of forces of 

 " that country, Derbyshire having 

 " failed us. 



" But we were overtaken in the 

 " fields of Willoughby by colonel 

 " Rof^siter, who so over-numbered 

 " us, that we were forced to draw 

 " all the men we had into one front; 

 " and having no reserves, though wc 

 " forced those we charged to recoil, 

 " yet these reserves stood firm, 

 " and advanced ujion us, and routed 

 " us, being disordered with tlio 

 " charge wc made upon the firi^ 



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