piece of them, and to gore the troopers'
horses as they came over them, or passed by them. Captain Camby, then a
trooper under Cromwell, and an actor, who was the third or fourth man
that entered amongst them, protested, he never in all the fights he was
in, met with such resolute brave fellows, or whom he pitied so much, and
said, 'he saved two or three against their wills.'

After the fight, Manchester marched slowly southward, &c. but at last
came with his army to Newbury fight; which ended, he came for London,
and there he accuseth Cromwell, being his Lieutenant, to the Parliament,
of disobedience, and not obeying his orders.

The House of Commons acquaint Cromwell herewith, and charge him, as he
would answer it before God, that the day following he should give them a
full account of Manchester's proceedings, and the cause and occasion of
their difference, and of the reasons why Manchester did not timely move
westward for the relief of Essex, then in the west, who was absolutely
routed, inforced to fly, all his foot taken, and all his ordnance and
train of artillery, only the horse escaping. Cromwell the next day gave
this account to Mr. Speaker in the House of Commons--by way of
recrimination.

That after God had given them a successful victory at Marston over the
King's forces, and that they had well refreshed their army, Manchester,
by their order, did move southward, but with such slowness, that
sometimes he would not march for three days together; sometimes he would
lie still one day, then two days; whereupon he said, considering the
Earl of Essex was in the west, with what success he then knew not, he
moved Manchester several times to quicken his march to the west, for
relief of Essex, if he were beaten, or to divert the King's forces from
following of Essex; but he said Manchester still refused to make any
haste; and that one day he said, 'If any man but yourself, Lieutenant,
should so frequently trouble me, I would call him before a Council of
War. We have beaten the King's forces in the north; if we should do so
in the west, his Majesty is then undone: he hath many sons living; if
any of them come to the Crown, as they well may, they will never forget
us.' This Major Hammond, a man of honour, will justify as well as
myself. After which he marched not at all, until he had order from the
Committee to hasten westward, by reason of Essex's being lost in
Cornwall, which then he did; and at Newbury fight, it is