. The great civil war of the times of Charles I and Cromwell; with thirty highly-finished engravings . g held in check, had at length succeeded in reducing Pem-broke, and had taken Poyer and his brave associates Langhorne and Powell. He instantlymarched northward, and, fonning a junction with Lambert at Knaresborough, determinedto attack the invaders with the advantage afforded him by their straggling march. SirMarmaduke, on whom the whole strength of the roundheads fell at once, was forced,after a stout resistance, to give way before their numbers and impetuosity. Retiring tothe entrance of a
. The great civil war of the times of Charles I and Cromwell; with thirty highly-finished engravings . g held in check, had at length succeeded in reducing Pem-broke, and had taken Poyer and his brave associates Langhorne and Powell. He instantlymarched northward, and, fonning a junction with Lambert at Knaresborough, determinedto attack the invaders with the advantage afforded him by their straggling march. SirMarmaduke, on whom the whole strength of the roundheads fell at once, was forced,after a stout resistance, to give way before their numbers and impetuosity. Retiring tothe entrance of a narrow road which led to Preston, the cavaliers obstinately disputedthe ground for sis. hours, agaiast overpowering odds, without the smallest support fromtheir alUes. At the entrance to the town they were joined by Hamilton, with his guardof horse and a few officers, but in such disorder as merely to add to the confusion of theretreat. In the streets the fight was resumed, and continued to the bridge, over whichBaylcy, with the Scottish foot, had just marched. At this point the contest was again. POPULAR INDIGNATION—SECOND WAR. 2G5 liotly renewed, Cromwells infantry and the Lancasliii-e regiments being (in the wordsof the lieutenant-generals animated despatch) long engaged at push of pike. At length,he continues, they were beaten from the bridge, and our horse and foot following them,killed many, and took divers prisoners, and we possessed the bridge and a few housesthere, where we lay that night, the enemy being drawn up within musket-shot of refers to such of the wearied and overmatched English as stUl kept together, forthe Scots were by this time in rapid retreat. Nothing could exceed the dismay anddisorder of this night-march, the roads being bad, the weather rainy, and the wholearmy distracted with terror of the victorious foe. With the morning the pvirsuit wasagain renewed, and continued to Warrington, where Bayley, though strongly postedupon a bridge, in comm
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