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possibly could, at several passes; whereof the chief 

 was at Piercebridge, at the entering into Yorkshire, 

 where 1500 of the enemies forces, commanded in 

 chief by Col. Hotham, were ready to interrupt My 

 Lord's forces, sent thither to secure that passe, 

 consisting of a regiment of dragoons, commanded by 

 Colonel Thomas Howard, and a regiment of foot, 

 commanded by Sir William Lambton, which they 

 performed with so much courage, that they routed 

 the enemy, and put them to flight, although the said 

 Col. Howard in that charge lost his life by an un- 

 fortunate shot. 



The enemy thus missing of their design, fled until 

 they m.et with a conjunction of their whole forces at 

 Tadcaster, some eight miles distant from York, and 

 My Lord went on without any other considerable 

 interruption. Being come to York, he drew up his 

 whole army before the town, both horse and foot, 

 where the Commander-in-Chief, the then Earl of 

 Cumberland, together with the gentry of the country, 

 came to wait on My Lord, and the then Governor of 

 York, Sir Thomas Glemham, presented him with 

 the keys of the city. 



Thus My Lord marched into the town with great 

 joy, and to the general satisfaction both of the 

 nobility and gentry, and most of the citizens; and 

 immediately without any delay, in the later end of 

 December 1642, fell upon consultations how he might 

 best proceed to serve his king and country; and 

 particularly, how his army should be maintained and 

 paid (as he did also afterwards in every country 

 wheresoever he marched), well knowing that no 

 army can be governed without being constantly 

 and regularly supported by provision and pay. 

 Whereupon it was agreed, that the nobility and 



