By tJie Rev. E. J. Bodintjtoii. 595 



goiii^j,- on tliiouj^hout that Suinlay afLernooii, in parLicular two 

 severe actions being fought, the one at tliree^ niihes th(; other at 

 one mile from Devizes. Of the hitter w(i have an intert'sting 

 account from Hopton himself, who was leading the infantry. " My 

 horse," he says, "made too much haste to the'lowne. Prince Maurice^ 

 therefore ordered my Lord Mohan's regiment th(in commanded hy 

 your servant [i.e., Hopton] to slay att a I'ioord ahouta mihi from the 

 towne and to keepe that passe till hee had drawn up the army n])on 

 the hill by the Towne which was done in halfe an hower . . . 

 and then the Regiment . . . was drawn off having endured muche 

 shott nothing sheltering them they were exposed too openly, a 

 brooke only running between the enemy and them : that llegiment 

 left odde of 40 dead in that place and carry 'd off 17 wounded of 

 which Captain Bluett and Lieut. May were recovered only, the one 

 shott into the very bosom, the other through the shoulder."'' In 

 these operations two hundred prisoners had been taken from the 

 Jioyalists.'* So theyreached the town, pursuers and pursued, Sunday, 

 0th July, 1643, night alone parting them, as we learn from both 

 sides. 



Next day, while Waller in the morning occupied the hill called 

 Iioundway Down, or j^agnall Hill/ well on the Royalists' com- 

 munications with Oxford, the Royalist cavalry under Maurice and 

 Hertford made off during the night, at lirst by Salisbury riaiii 

 towards Salisbury, then wheeling round straight for Oxford in- 

 elf'ectually pursued by Waller's cavalry^ ; and Hopton, wountled 



1 Ih. ' The brother of Prince Piipert. 



" iIo])t()n'.s narrative in Chadwick Healy's JJclliun Ci rile \ Soinerset Recjvds. 



^ Letter of Waller and liazelrigge, quoted above. 



■• From a True Relafiun of the Late F'njht l»tween Sir IT. W'lHer's Forces 

 and thosi' sent from Oxford etc. . . . sent from a Co/o/itll in that Ann;/ 

 now in. Ilristoll to a friend of Ids in London. [Lomlon. De.vter iV Co., 1()43.] 

 (Iveprinted in Washbourne'.s llihl i<>th>ca Gfouceatriensis,) "it i)ein,:; 

 late we [the Parlianientariau.s] durst not enter the Towne, hut .still 

 kept the field in a green near liowdc Thr mxt morning being Monday 

 wo drew up to I'a'jrnall Hill witli our whole bo.ly; that niu'lit woe sent out 

 many parties and di^'w downr [o Runway." 



'■■ W. and II. A 1m. .1 True Rr-fatmn, etc. 



