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and not to fight the enemy; yet the said Lieutenant- 

 General of the Horse being transported by his courage 

 (he being a person of great valour and conduct) and 

 having charged the enemy, unfortunately lost the 

 field, and himself was slain in the charge, his horse 

 fighting in a bogg: which news being brought to 

 My Lord when he was on his march, he made all the 

 hast he could, and was no sooner joined with his 

 Lieutenant-General, but fell upon the enemy, and put 

 them to flight. 



The first garison My Lord took in Lincolnshire 

 was Gainsborrough, a town standing upon the River 

 Trent, wherein (not long before) had been a garison 

 of soldiers for His Majesty, under the command of 

 the then Earl of Kingstone, but surprised, and the 

 town taken by the enemies forces, who having an 

 intention to conveigh the said Earl of Kingstone 

 from thence to Hull in a Httle pinnace, met with some 

 of My Lord's forces by the way commanded by the 

 Lieutenant of the army, who being desirous to rescue 

 the Earl of Kingstone, and making some shots with 

 their regiment pieces, to stop the pinnace, unfortun- 

 ately slew him and one of his servants. 



My Lord drawing near the mentioned town of 

 Gainsborrough, there appeared on the top of a hill 

 above the town, some of the enemies horse drawn 

 up in a body; whereupon he immediately sent a 

 party of his horse to view them ; who no sooner came 

 within their sight, but they retreated fairly so long 

 as they could well endure; but the pursuit of My 

 Lord's horse caused them presently to break their 

 ranks, and fall to their heels, where most of them 

 escaped, and fled to Lincoln, another of their garisons. 

 Hereupon My Lord summoned the town of Gains- 

 borrough ; but the Governour thereof refusing to yield. 



