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ruined by the enemy, had he but had some timely 

 supply and assistance at the siege of York, or that his 

 counsel had been taken in not fighting the enemy then, 

 or that the battel had been differed some two or three 

 dayes longer, until those forces were arrived which 

 he expected, namely three thousand men out of 

 Northumberland, and two thousand drawn out of 

 several garisons. But the chief misfortune was, that 

 the enemy fell upon the King's forces before they 

 were all put into a Battallia, and took them at their 

 great disadvantage ; which caused such a panick fear 

 amongst them, that most of the horse of the right 

 wing of His Majesty's forces, betook themselves to 

 their heels; insomuch, that although the left wing 

 (commanded by the Lord Goring, and my brother 

 Sir Charles Lucas) did their best endeavour, and beat 

 back the enemy three times, and My Lord's own 

 regiment of foot charged them so couragiously, that 

 they never broke, but died most of them in their 

 ranks and files; yet the power of the enemy being 

 too strong, put them at last to a total rout and confu- 

 sion. Which unlucky disaster put an end to all future 

 hopes of His Majesties party; so that My Lord seeing 

 he had nothing left in his power to do His Majesty 

 any further service in that kind (for had he stayed, he 

 would have been forced to surrender all those towns 

 and garisons in those parts, that were yet in His 

 Majesties devotion, as afterwards it also happened) 

 resolved to quit the kingdom, as formerly is mentioned. 

 And these are chiefly the obstructions to the good 

 success of My Lord's designs in the late Civil Wars; 

 which being rightly considered, will save him blame- 

 less from what otherwise would be laid to his charge ; 

 for, as according to the old saying, 'Tis easiefor men 

 to swim, when they are held up by the chin ; so on the 



