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HE field of Naseby,high up among the 

 hills of Northampton, lies in the very 

 heart of England, as befits the spot 

 where a Monarch fought a last bat- 

 tle for his crown. For nearly two cen- 

 turies after the fight the ground was 

 still in greater part unfenced, untilled. 

 Seventy years ago no hedgerows crossed 

 its grassy slopes. Within the memory 

 of men still living the scene of conflict 

 remained much in the same condition 

 as when .Roundhead and Cavalier met 

 upon that moorland battle-ground. 



But the plough has done its work 

 upon the field since then. Gone are 

 the thickets of gorse and the treacherous rabbit-holes 

 that hampered on that memorable day the movements 



