. The great civil war of the times of Charles I. and Cromwell . er, on the 22dof Julj, two hosts sat down before their waUs—Prince Rupert, with his Oxford forces,on the Gloucestershire side; the Maiquess of Hertford and Prince Maurice, with thevictorious Cornish army, on the side of Somersetshfre. The first step taken by the royalists was to seize on the ships in the harboui; inwhich were many persons of consideration, who had prepaied to avoid the horrors of thesiege, by escaping, with their families and treasm-e, to London. The next was to deter-mine on the method of attack. Ruperts opinion,
. The great civil war of the times of Charles I. and Cromwell . er, on the 22dof Julj, two hosts sat down before their waUs—Prince Rupert, with his Oxford forces,on the Gloucestershire side; the Maiquess of Hertford and Prince Maurice, with thevictorious Cornish army, on the side of Somersetshfre. The first step taken by the royalists was to seize on the ships in the harboui; inwhich were many persons of consideration, who had prepaied to avoid the horrors of thesiege, by escaping, with their families and treasm-e, to London. The next was to deter-mine on the method of attack. Ruperts opinion, according with his hot and impatienttemper, that it shoidd be by storm, ultimately prevailed. The gairison of Bristol con-sisted of about 2,500 infantry and a regiment of dragoons. The town had a line offortifications drawn entfrely round it. At daybreak on the 24th day of July, thebesieged beheld fr-om theii- walls, on either side of the town, at the same moment, theirenemies advancing to the assault, in three sepaiate divisions. Each division was crowded. THE ROYALISTS VICTORIOUS. 87 with officers, eager for the glory, and disdaiuful of the danger, of seizing so importanta prize. On the west side, the middle division was led bj^ 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 own 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 prosided with hardly any other means of assault beside their ordinaryweapons and determined courage. They fiUed the moat, and some of them mounted thewall; but the defenders behaved like men of the same moidd with their Buck precipitated from the rampart to perish in the foss; the n
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