204 Hull, mist the opertunity of wholly gaining all those miighbouring counties, and much wasted his greate and victorious army, being forc'd to rise with lossc and disl10nor fi·om the unyielding towne. After the fight at Newberry Sir William Wailer, having gotten a new m·mie, had divers successes with it, and at leng th totally routed all Hopton's armic, about that time that Prince Rupert rays'd the siege at Newark, and was the occasion that call'cl the prince so hastily out of those counties. The Earle of Essex persning the warre, had a clesigne to block up Oxford, where the king was, and accordingly attempted it, he on one side, and ·wailer on the other; but the king, with a few light horse, esc;aped out of the towne, and went to ioyne with his greater armies, which being done, Essex marcht farther into the • west, and in Co rnw<tll was besieg'd, where he lost all his foote, ammunition, and ordinance, and came dishonorably home to London. Wailer unsnccessefully followed the king, and the parliament's affhires, all that summer, were very unprospcrous in the west, south, and 'midland connties, but contrary in the north, where the Scotch annie, under Gencrall Leven, aclvanc'd, tooke some townes and forts, and wasted the Earle of Newcastle's armie more by their patient sufferance of the ill weather and martial! toyle, which the English could not so well abide, then by fighting. Sr. Thomas Fairfax, having againc taken the field with his father, after a miraculous victory they had gain'd over the Irish army ' which the king had bwught over, ioyn'd the ~q>ts; and the Earle of Manchester, having ray>'d a force in the associated counties, with which he made an expedition to Liucol nc, havii1g Coli. Cromwell for his licftenantgenerall, marcht into Yorksh ire, and uniting with the other two armies, they all besieg'd the Eadc of Newca~tle in Yorke. To rayse 1 Commanded by Sir John Biron, or Lord Biron, near .Namptwich in Cheshire4
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