. The great civil war of the times of Charles I and Cromwell; with thirty highly-finished engravings . on the 22dof July, two hosts sat down before their waUs—Prince Rupert, with his Oxford forces,on the Gloucestershire side; the ]\Iarquess of Hertford and Prince Maurice, ^ith thevictorious Cornish army, on the side of Somersetshire. The first step taken by the royalists was to seize on the ships in the harbour; inwhich were many persons of consideration, who had prepared to avoid the horrors of thesiege, by escaping, with theu- families and treasme, to London. The next was to deter-mine on th
. The great civil war of the times of Charles I and Cromwell; with thirty highly-finished engravings . on the 22dof July, two hosts sat down before their waUs—Prince Rupert, with his Oxford forces,on the Gloucestershire side; the ]\Iarquess of Hertford and Prince Maurice, ^ith thevictorious Cornish army, on the side of Somersetshire. The first step taken by the royalists was to seize on the ships in the harbour; inwhich were many persons of consideration, who had prepared to avoid the horrors of thesiege, by escaping, with theu- families and treasme, to London. The next was to deter-mine on the method of attack. Ruperts opinion, according with his hot and impatienttemper, that it should be by storm, ultimately prevailed. The gai-rison of Bristol con-sisted of about 2,500 infantry and a regiment of dragoons. The town had a Une offortifications drawn cntucly round it. At daybreak on the 24th day of Jvly, thebesieged beheld from their walls, on either side of the town, at the same moment, theirenemies advancing to the assault, in three separate divisions. Each division was crowded >. I THE ROYALISTS VICTOIIIOIS. 87 with officers^ eager for the gloiy, and disdainful of the danger, of seizing so importanta prize. Ou the ■west side, the middle division was led by Sir Nicholas Slanning andSir John Trevannion, the life and soul of the Cornish regiments. The second, on theright, was brought up by Colonel Buck, and Colonel Bernard Ashley, who commandedHertfords owa regiment. Sir Thomas Basset, major-general of the Cornish regiments,advanced with the third division, on the left. The moat in this part was deep, the lineswell flanked, and the ground level and exposed; over which the divisions now poured atonce, though provided with hardly any other means of assaidt beside their ordinaiyweapons and determined comage. They filled the moat, and some of them mounted thewall; but the defenders behaved like men of the same mould with their Buck precipitated fr
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