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8. My Lord (as heretofore mentioned) had as great private 

 enemies about his Majesty, as he had public enemies in the 

 field, who used all the endeavour they could to pull him down. 



9. There was such juggling, treachery, and falsehood in his 

 own army, and amongst some of his own officers, that it was 

 impossible for my Lord to be prosperous and successful in his 

 designs and undertakings. 



10. My Lord's army being the chief and greatest army which 

 his Majesty had, and in which consisted his prime strength 

 and power, the Parliament resolved, at last, to join all their 

 forces with the army of the Scots (which when it came out 

 of Scotland, was above 20,000 men), to oppose, and if possible, 

 to ruin it ; well knowing, that if they did pull down my Lord, 

 they should be masters of all the three kingdoms ; so that 

 there were three armies against one. But although my Lord 

 suffered much by the negligence (and sometimes treachery) 

 of his officers, and was unfortunately called back into York- 

 shire, from his march he designed for the Associate Counties, 

 and was forced to part with a great number of his forces and 

 ammunition, as afore-mentioned ; yet he would hardly have 

 been overcome, and his army ruined by the enemy, had he but 

 had some timely supply and assistance at the siege of York, 

 or that his counsel had been taken in not fighting the enemy 

 then, or that the battle had been deferred some two or three 

 days longer, until those forces were arrived which he expected, 

 namely, 3,000 men out of Northumberland, and 2,000 drawn 

 out of several garrisons. But the chief misfortune was that the 

 enemy fell upon the King's forces, before they were all put 

 into a battallia, and took them at their great disadvantage ; 

 which caused such a panic fear amongst them, that most 

 of the horse of the right wing of his Majesty's forces betook 

 themselves to their heels ; insomuch, that although the left 

 wing (commanded by the Lord Goring and my brother Sir 

 Charles Lucas) did their best endeavour, and beat back the 



called away by the gentlemen of Yorkshire, who began again to fear my Lord Fair- 

 fax's power ; for after he was once got to Hull, his shattered troops began to drop in 

 one after another, and what he wanted in foot he made the country supply him with 

 out of the East Riding. He begins to enlarge his quarters, and held Beverley too, and 

 doubted not within a while to be able to visit his dearly beloved the West Riding again. 

 This I say was the cause that moved the gentlemen to send to his Excellency to desire 

 him to come back ; and being come gave their opinions that his only way would be 

 to besiege him in Hull ; and of that opinion was Lieutenant-General King, and that 

 it might be won if the gentlemen would undertake to raise an addition of force to those 

 out of the country. They go about it and in several parts of the country sits in com- 

 mission, makes great levies if they could be kept together.' — Slingsby, Memoirs, p. 99. 



