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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
The two following letters will perhaps be amusing, as they expose the different dispositions of persons employed on the same side. All accounts concur in the dispersion of great numbers of those who had fought at Edge-hill and suffered in the diseased camp at Beading. The writer of the first letter shews the coolness or ease with which his object was accomplished, in spite of his having subjected himself to military law and to the punishment of death. He had served for a while as a dragoon under Captain Baynes, and when he found his commanding officer was ordered into the West, he turns his back upon him and sends this excuse.
page 214 note 1 Clarendon, however, states that the cannon were shotted.
page 228 note 1 [The loss when the stable was burnt must have been soon in part repaired, as 10 weeks afterwards 70 horses were captured at Raglan, “most of them belonging to Goodrich Castle.”—Cary, i. 63.]
page 228 note 2 [Wallenstein at his leaguer before Nuremberg employed “barrells or hogsheads filled with sand and stones for throwing, placed on the batteries.”—Monro, ii. 134.]
page 228 note 3 The treaty for the surrender of Oxford was signed June 21st; the city was-surrendered to Fairfax on the 25th.
page 233 note 1 Rushworth, iv. I. 482.
page 233 note 2 Bell's Fairfax Correspondence, i. 370.
page 234 note 1 See also Cary's Memorials, i. 101, 138, 221, 277, 282.