OF PRINCE RUPERT, AND THE CAVALIERS. Including their Private Correspondence, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS. BY ELIOT WARBURTON, AUTHOR OF "THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS." RICHARD BENTLEY, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. M.DCCC.XLIX. 44462+12 1870, Aug.8. Lane Fund. LONDON: Printed by S. & J. BENTLEY and HENRY FLEY, Bangor House, Shoe Lane. CONTENTS ΤΟ THE THIRD VOLUME. PAGE HAPPY PROGRESS. -TREATY OF UXBRIDGE. LEICESTER SIEGE. BATTLE OF NASEBY.-SURRENDER OF BRISTOL. SURRENDER OF OXFORD. - FRENCH CAMPAIGN. - RUPERT BECOMES AN ADMIRAL; HIS CRUISE TO IRELAND; TO THE MEDITERRANEAN; TO THE NEWARK. ALL IS OVER. THE CAVALIERS ARE SUPPRESSED.-RUPERT LEAVES ENGLAND. "I look upon the way of treaties, as a retiring from fighting like beasts, to arguing like men, whose strength should be more in their understandings than their limbs." CHARLES I. One body jars, And with itself does fight, War meets with wars, And might resisteth might; And both sides say they love the king, And peace will bring, Yet since these fatal broils begun, Icon Basilicon. Strange riddle! both have conquer'd, neither won. Old Song. THE first report concerning the battle of Marston Moor reached the King on the 5th of July at Evesham. The messenger had left the field while VOL. III. B |