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troop of their horse, and showed themselves upon a hill within the 

 view of the town a little before sunset, where they remained till it 

 grew dark ; then the soldiers set the whins and gorse on fire upon 

 that hill, which gave them such an alarm in the town, that Sir 

 Thomas Fairfax presently called to horse, and about twelve o'clock 

 in the night they quit both that town and a garrison they had in 

 Sir Henry Humlock's house, and in great disorder away they fled 

 to Nottingham without any stay, having lost many of their men, 

 most of which are now our prisoners. About Broxtowe their men 

 so straggled, that two parties met with one another in a lane, and 

 conceiving they had met a party of ours, gave fire upon one another, 

 and killed a lieutenant of their own. They passed to Nottingham 

 extremely tired and wearied, and there remained three or four 

 days ; from thence they went to Melton-Mowbray in Leicestershire, 

 and stayed but a while there, not liking to remain long in one place. 

 But we had no sooner possessed Chesterfield, before the rebels 

 possessed themselves of a strong house at Alfreton and the church 

 there, against which we sent two hundred musquetiers, who fell 

 upon the church and took it by assault (without any loss on our 

 part), and about twenty men in it, together with their arms ; 

 whereupon the house and arms were surrendered with this con- 

 dition, that they might march away to their own houses, making 

 first protestation never again to bear arms against his Majesty. 



About that time Colonel Dudley, Major-General of the Dragoons, 

 was sent with a commanding party of horse and foot, into the 

 Peak Country, where at the first, about Ashford, he encountered 

 with at least five hundred foot and three troops of horse, which he 

 charged home, and presently routed them ; some of them he killed, 

 and took about twenty prisoners, but being late and growing dark 

 the rest escaped, and in great disorder ran away to save them- 

 selves. 



About the same time Commissary Windham going out with a 

 party of horse and dragoons into Craven, was there encountered 

 by some rebels, which he presently forced into a house (belonging 

 to Sir William Savile) called Aireton Hall, where though he had 

 some few men hurt, and himself shot through the shoulder (not 

 without good hopes of recovery), yet continuing their assault, 

 they took the house and sixty men in it (together with all their 

 arms), whom now they have prisoners at the Earl of Cumberland's 

 castle in Skipton. 



Not long after this, about the twenty-seventh day of November, 

 the Governor of Newark having intelligence from Belvoir that the 

 committee of Leicester was at Melton raising money, with a guard 

 of two or three troops of horse, and some dragoons (which town 

 is sixteen miles distant from Newark), he drew forth about four 



