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nent birth and splendid alliances, hath equalled all those titles 

 with which he is adorned by desert, and hath also won them 

 by virtue, industry, prudence, and a steadfast faith : whilst 

 with dangers and expenses gathering together soldiers, arms, 

 and all other warlike habiliments ; and applying them as well 

 in our affairs, as most plentifully sending them to us (having 

 forethought of our dignity and security), he was ready with 

 us in all actions in Yorkshire, and governed the town of New- 

 castle and castle, in the mouth of Tyne, at the time of that 

 fatal revolt of the people who were got together ; and with a 

 band of his friends did opportunely seize that port, and settled 

 it a garrison ; bringing arms to us (then our only relief) : 

 in which service so strongly going on (which was of grand 

 moment to our affairs) we do gratefully remember him still 

 to have stood to : afterwards, having mustered together a 

 good army (ourself being gone elsewhere), the rebels now 

 enjoying almost all Yorkshire, and the chief est fortress of all 

 the country now appearing to have scarce refuge or safety for 

 him against the swelling rebels (the whole country then desiring 

 and praying for his coming, that he might timely relieve them 

 in their desperate condition) : and leading his said army 

 in the midst of winter gave the rebels battle in his passage, 

 vanquished them, and put them to flight, and took from them 

 several garrisons and places of refuge, and restored health 

 to the subjects, and, by his many victories, peace and security 

 to the countries : witness those places, made noble by the death 

 and flight of the rebels : in Lincolnshire, Gainsborough and 

 Lincoln ; in Derbyshire, Chesterfield ; but in Yorkshire, 

 Peircebridge, Seacroft, Tankerly, Tadcaster, Sheffield, Rother- 

 ham, Yarum, Beverley, Cawood, Selby, Halifax, Leeds, and, 

 above all, Bradford ; where, when the Yorkshire and Lanca- 

 shire rebels were united, and battle joined with them ; when 

 our army, as well by the great numbers of the rebels, as much 

 more the badness of our ground, was so prest upon, that the 

 soldiers now seemed to think of flying ; he, their General, with 

 a full career, commanding two troops to follow him, broke into 

 the very rage of the battle, and with so much violence fell upon 

 the right wing of those rebels, that those who were but now 

 certain of victory, turned their backs, and fled from the con- 

 queror, who by his wisdom, virtue, and his own hand, brought 

 death and flight to the rebels, victory and glory to himself, 



