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How valiantly they behaved themselves in the last fatal 

 battle upon Hessom Moor near York, has been also declared 

 heretofore ; insomuch, that although most of the army were 

 fled, yet they would not stir, until by the enemy's power they 

 were overcome, and most of them slain in rank and file 1 . 



Their love and affection to my Lord was such, that it lasted 

 even when he was deprived of all his power, and could do 

 them little good ; to which purpose I shall mention this 

 following passage : 



My Lord being in Antwerp, received a visit from a gentleman, 

 who came out of England, and rendered my Lord thanks 

 for his safe escape at sea ; my Lord being in amaze, not know- 

 ing what the gentleman meant, he was pleased to acquaint 

 him, that in his coming over sea out of England, he was set 

 upon by pickaroons 2 , who having examined him, and the 

 rest of his company, at last some asked him, whether he knew 

 the Marquess of Newcastle ? To whom he answered, that 

 he knew him very well, and was going over into the same city 

 where my Lord lived. Whereupon they did not only take 

 nothing from him, but used him with all civility, and desired 

 him to remember their humble duty to their Lord-General, 

 for they were some of his White-coats that had escaped death ; 

 and if my Lord had any service for them, they were ready to 

 assist him upon what designs soever, and to obey him in 

 whatsoever he should be pleased to command them. 



This I mention for the eternal fame and memory of those 

 valiant and faithful men. But to return to the power my 

 Lord had in the late wars : as he was the head of his own army, 

 and had raised it most upon his own interest for the service 

 of his Majesty ; so he was never ordered by his Majesty's 

 privy council (except that some forces of his were kept by 



1 ' A most memorable action happened on that day. There was one entire regi- 

 ment of foot belonging to Newcastle, called the Lambs, because they were all new clothed 

 in white woollen cloth, two or three days before the fight. This sole regiment, after 

 the day was lost, having got into a small parcel of ground ditched in, and not of easy 

 access of horse, would take no quarter ; and by mere valour, for one whole hour, kept 

 the troops of horse from entering amongst them at near push of pike : when the horse 

 did enter, they would have no quarter, but fought it out till there was not thirty of 

 them living ; those whose hap it was to be beaten down upon the ground as the troopers 

 came near them, though they could not rise for their wounds, yet were so desperate as 

 to get either a pike or sword, or piece of them, and to gore the troopers' horses, as they 

 came over them, or passed by them. Captain Camby, then a trooper under Crom- 

 well, and an actor, who was the third or fourth man that entered amongst them, pro- 

 tested he never, in all the fights he was in, met with such resolute brave fellows, or whom 

 he pitied so much, and said " He saved two or three against their wills ".' — Diary of 

 William Lilly, p. 178, ed. 1822. 



2 Rogues, from the Spanish Picaro. 



