The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ping up and down, hecalled on the soldiers to spare the lives of their enemies. Spare the poordeluded countrymen, he cried. O spare them who are misled andknow not what they do. This memorable victory was the crown ofpatriotic exertion to the Fairfaxes. York, then the second city in the kingdom, surrendered to the Parlia-mentarians after the battle of Marston Moor, and was promptly occupiedby the army under Sir Thomas Fairfax, to whose incessant watchfulnessthe escape of its unrivaled Gothic cathedral from defacement by the handsof the
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ping up and down, hecalled on the soldiers to spare the lives of their enemies. Spare the poordeluded countrymen, he cried. O spare them who are misled andknow not what they do. This memorable victory was the crown ofpatriotic exertion to the Fairfaxes. York, then the second city in the kingdom, surrendered to the Parlia-mentarians after the battle of Marston Moor, and was promptly occupiedby the army under Sir Thomas Fairfax, to whose incessant watchfulnessthe escape of its unrivaled Gothic cathedral from defacement by the handsof the Puritan soldiers is due. The siege of Helmsley Castle, in whichFairfax received one ball that passed through his shoulder, and anotherthat shattered his arm, next followed. Recovering from the effects ofthese dangerous wounds, so far as to be able to take the field, he was in-vested with the supreme command of the Parliamentary forces, and in thatposition organized the new model army, which undoubtedly was the THE FAIRFAXES OF YORKSHIRE AND VIRGINIA 225. GENERAL LORD ( BLACK TOM ) FAIRFAX. most effective military force then in existence. The soldiers were thecream of the yeomen and skilled workmen of England—men fighting forthe noblest cause in which sword was ever drawn. Prompt action, rapidmovement, strict discipline, and consummate generalship characterized allits operations. Its mettle was soon tested in the decisive battle of Naseby,where General Fairfax rode his favorite chestnut mare. It was a stubborn 226 THE FAIRFAXES OF YORKSHIRE AND VIRGINIA con diet oi heroes, in which the completest of victories fell to the lot of thepatriots. The commander displayed rare military talents, wise caution,and headlong bravery. What next was to come? Other questions than those connected withwarfare arose in the mind of Fairfax, and disquieted him. England musthave a government of some sort, but of what sort would it be? The so-lution of this problem was necessarily deferred until the
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