42 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



shipping for Hamburgh ! the gentry of the country, who also 

 came to take their leaves of my Lord, being much troubled 

 at his departure, and speaking very honourably of him, as 

 surely they had no reason to the contrary 1 . 



l Clarendon severely blames both Rupert and Newcastle. ' This may be said of 

 it, that the like was never done or heard or read of before ; that two great generals, 

 whereof one had still a good army left, his horse, by their not having performed their 

 duty, remaining upon the matter entire, and much the greater part of his foot having 

 retired into the town, the great execution having fallen upon the northern foot ; and 

 the other having the absolute commission over the northern counties, and very many 

 considerable places in them still remaining under his obedience, should both agree in 

 nothing else but in leaving that good ally and the whole country as a prey to the enemy. 

 . . All that can be said for the Marquis is, that he was utterly tired with a condition 

 and employment so contrary to his humour, nature, and education ; that he did not 

 at all consider the means or the way that would let him out of it, and free him for ever 

 from having more to do with it. . . The strange manner of the Prince's coming, and 

 undeliberated throwing himself and all the King's hopes into that sudden and unneces- 

 sary engagement, by which all the force the Marquis had raised, and with so many 

 difficulties preserved, was in a moment cast away and destroyed, so transported him 

 with passion and despair that he could not compose himself to think of beginning the 

 work again, and involving himself in the same undelightful condition of life, from which 

 he might now be free.' — Clarendon, Rebellion, viii, 76-87. 



Sir Hugh Cholmley, in his Memorials touching the battle of York, says : ' General 

 King, considering the King's affairs absolutely destroyed by loss of this battle, per- 

 suaded the Marquis, against all the power of his other friends, to quit the kingdom.' 



A discussion of the different questions connected with the history of the battle, and 

 a'critical examination of the various contemporary accounts, are to be found in a paper 

 on Marston Moor in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society for 1898 (New Series, 

 vol. xii). 



