Life of the Duke 37 



entered without interruption, and there stayed some 

 few days to refresh his army, and order that part of 

 the country. 



In December, 1642, My Lord thought it fit to 

 march to Pomfret, and to quarter his army in that 

 part of the country which was betwixt Cawood and 

 some garisons of the enemy, in the west part of 

 Yorkshire, viz. Halhfax, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, 

 etc., where he remained some time to recruit and 

 enlarge his army, which was much lessened by erecting 

 of garisons, and to keep those parts in oider and obedi- 

 ence to His Majesty; And after he had thus ordered 

 his affairs, he was enabled to give protection to those 

 parts of the country that were most willing to embrace 

 it, and quartered his army for a time in such places 

 which he had reduced. Tadcaster which stood upon 

 a pass, he made a garison or rather a strong quarter, 

 and put also a garison into Pomfret Castle, not above 

 eight miles distant from Tadcaster, which commanded 

 that town, and a great part of the country. 



During the time that his army remained at Pomfret, 

 My Lord setled a garison at Newark in Nottingham- 

 shire, standing upon the River Trent, a very consider- 

 able pass, which kept the greatest part of Nottingham- 

 shire, and part of Lincolnshire, in obedience; and 

 after that he returned, in the beginning of January, 

 1642, back to York, with an intention to supply 

 himself with some ammunition, which he had ordered 

 to be brought from Newcastle: A convoy of horse 

 that were imployed to conduct it from thence, under 

 the command of the Lieutenant-General of the army, 

 the Lord Ethyn, was by the enemy at a pass, called 

 Yarumbridge, in Yorkshire, fiercely encountered; in 

 which encounter My Lord's forces totally routed 

 them, slew many, and took many prisoners, and most 



