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incapable of charging; at last the pikes of My Lord's 

 army having had no emplo5mient all the day, were 

 drawn against the enemies left wing, and particularly 

 those ol My Lord's own regiment, which were all 

 stout and valiant men, who fell so furiously upon 

 the enemy, that they forsook their hedges, and fell to 

 their heels : at which very instant My Lord caused a 

 shot or two to be made by his cannon against the 

 body of the enemies horse, drawn up within cannon 

 shot, which took so good effect, that it disordered 

 the enemies troops; hereupon My Lord's horse got 

 over the hedge, not in a body (for that they could not), 

 but dispersedly two on a breast ; and as soon as some 

 considerable number was gotten over, and drawn up, 

 they charged the enemy, and routed them; so that 

 in an instant there was a strange change of fortune, 

 and the field totally won by My Lord, notwithstanding 

 he had quitted 7000 men, to conduct Her Majesty, 

 besides a good train of artillery, which in such a con- 

 juncture would have weakened Caesar's army. In 

 this victory the enemy lost most of their foot, about 

 3000 were taken prisoners, and 700 horse and foot 

 slain, and those that escaped fled into their garison 

 at Bradford, amongst whom was also their general 

 of the horse. Sir Thos. Fairfax. 



After this My Lord caused his army to be rallied, 

 and marched in order that night before Bradford, 

 with an intention to storm it the next morning; but 

 the enemy that were in the town, it seems, were so 

 discomfited, that the same night they escaped all 

 various ways, and amongst them the said general of 

 the horse, whose lady being behind a servant on 

 horseback, was taken by some of My Lord's soldiers, 

 and brought to his quarters, where she was treated 

 and attended with all civility and respect, and within 



