night there came word of the Parliament's victory;
Fairfax being then laid down upon a bed, there was not a candle in the
castle, nor any fire: up riseth Lord Fairfax, procures after some time,
paper, ink, and candle, writes to Hull, and other garrisons of the
Parliament's, of the success, and then slept.

Leven the Scot asked the way to Tweed: the honour of that day's fight
was given to Manchester, Sir Thomas Fairfax's brigade of horse, and
Oliver Cromwell's iron sides; for Cromwell's horse, in those times,
usually wore head-pieces, back and breast-plates of iron. After this
victory Cromwell became gracious with the House of Commons, especially
the Zealots, or Presbyterians, with whom at that time he especially
joined; the name Independent, at that time, viz. 1644, being not so much
spoken of.

There was some animosity at or before the fight, betwixt the Earl of
Newcastle and Prince Rupert; for Newcastle being General of his
Majesty's forces in the North, a person of valour, and well esteemed in
those parts, took it not well to have a competitor in his concernments;
for if the victory should fall on his Majesty's side, Prince Rupert's
forces would attribute it unto their own General, viz. Rupert, and give
him the glory thereof: but that it happened, Prince Rupert, in that
day's fight, engaged the Parliament's forces too soon, and before the
Earl of Newcastle could well come out of York with his army; by reason
whereof, though Rupert had absolutely routed the Scots and the Lord
Fairfax's forces; yet ere timely assistance could second his army, Sir
Thomas Fairfax and Cromwell had put him to flight, and not long after
all Newcastle's army. A most memorable action happened on that day.
There was one entire regiment of foot belonging to Newcastle, called the
Lambs, because they were all new cloathed in white woollen cloth, two or
three days before the fight. This sole regiment, after the day was lost,
having got into a small parcel of ground ditched in, and not of easy
access of horse, would take no quarter; and by mere valour, for one
whole hour, kept the troops of horse from entering amongst them at near
push of pike: when the horse did enter, they would have no quarter, but
fought it out till there was not thirty of them living; those whose hap
it was to be beaten down upon the ground as the troopers came near them,
though they could not rise for their wounds, yet were so desperate as to
get either a pike or sword, or