306 - NATURAL HISTORY 
The whole progrefs of the faithful Cornifh in the King’s Service 
may be feen in the Earl of Clarendon’s Hiftory of the Great Re- 
bellion, much to the credit of this county ; but of all their adions, 
the battle at Lanfdown near Bath does them moft honour. Of 
their gallantry here Mr. Scawen °, being himfelf a cavalier,^ produces 
not his own, but the evidence of their enemies, that is, of the Par- 
liament-forces : “ The enemy themfelves have fufflciently given 
teftimony thereto, looking upon it with admiration, acknowledg- 
ing it fuch a fervice they never faw the like : Amongft others by 
Sir Ralph Knight, a Cromwellian, I have heard it magnified in 
more particulars than we ourfelves could think fit to write. In 
memory of this battle p , George late V. Lanfdown ereded a handfome 
monument on the field of adion, on the north fide of which is engraved 
the following defcription of Sir Bevil Granville, Baronet, of Stow in 
this county, general of the Cornifh forces, who fell there : 
“ Conqueft or death was all his thought, fo fire 
Either o’ercomes or does itfelf expire. 
His courage work’d like flames, caff heat about, 
Here, there, on this, on that fide none gave out, 
i Nor any pike in that renowned ftand 
But took new force from his infpiring hand ; 
Soldier encouraged foldier, man urg’d man r , 
And he urg’d all, fo much example can ; 
Hurt upon hurt, wound upon wound did call 
He was the mark, the butt, the aim of all ; 
His foul this while retir’d from cell to cell, 
At laft flew up from all, and then he fell. 
But the devoted ftand enrag’d the more 
From that his fate, ply’d hotter than before, 
And proud to fall with him, fworn not to yield, 
Each fought an honour’d grave, and won the field : 
Thus he being fall’n, his adion fought anew, 
And the dead conquer’d, whilft the living flew.” Gart ^ u 
<c Thus flain thy valiant 5 anceftor did lye, 
When his one bark * a navy did defye, 
When now encompafs’d round the victor flood, 
And bath’d his pinnace in his conquering blood, 
“MS, page 28. r Hseret pede pes, denfufque viro vir. 
P Defcribed particularly in Clarendon. _ .dEn. x. ver. 36 r. 
a The poet had certainly in view the celebrated 8 Sir Richard Granville, Vice-admiral in the 
reign of Queen Elizabeth againft the Spani- 
ards. 
1 The Revenge. 
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