44 The Duchess of Newcastle 



till he had refreshed his soldiers; and then a resolu- 

 tion was taken to march against a garison of the 

 enemies called Bradford, a little but a strong town; 

 in the way he met with a strong interruption by the 

 enemy drawing forth a vast number of musquetiers, 

 which they had very privately gotten out of Lanca- 

 shire, the next adjoining county to those parts of 

 Yorkshire, which had so easie an access to them at 

 Bradford, by reason the whole country was of their 

 party, that My Lord could not possibly have any 

 constant intelligence of their designs and motions; 

 for in their army there were near 5000 musquetiers, 

 and 18 troops of horse, drawn up in a place full of 

 hedges, called Atherton-moor, near to their garison 

 at Bradford, ready to encounter My Lord's forces, 

 which then contained not above half so many mus- 

 quetiers as the enemy had; their chiefest strength 

 consisting in horse, and these made useless for a long 

 time together by the enemies horse possessing all the 

 plain ground upon that field; so that no place was 

 left to draw up My Lord's horse, but amongst old 

 coalpits: neither could they charge the enemy, by 

 reason of a great ditch and high bank betwixt M\^ 

 Lord's and the enemies troops, but by two on a breast, 

 and that within musquet shot; the enemy being 

 drawn up in hedges, and continually playing upon 

 them, which rendered the service exceeding difficult 

 and hazardous. 



In the mean while the foot of both sides on the right 

 and left wings encountered each other, who fought 

 from hedge to hedge, and for a long time together 

 overpowered and got ground of My Lord's foot, 

 almost to the invironing of his cannon; My Lord's 

 horse (wherein consisted his greatest strength) all 

 this while being made, by reason of the ground. 



