205 this siege, Pl'ince Rupert came with a greate armie out of the south ; the besiegers rise to fight with the pri nce, and Newcastle <lrew all his force out of Yorke to ioyne wit h him, when both armies, on a grea te plaine call'd. Marston Moor, had a bloocly <"nconnter, and the Scott' and my lord Fairfax were wholly routed, and the battle lost, but ~hat Cromwell, with five thousand men which he commanded, routed Prince Rupert, restor'd the other routed parl iamentarians , and gain'd the most complea tc victory that had bene obtein'd in the whole warre.' T he vic tors posscsst all the prince's ordinance, carriages, and baggage; whereupon the prince fled, with as many as he could save, back into the south; the Earle of Newcastle, with some of his choyce friends, went into ·Germany, and left Sr. T homas Glenham governor of Yo rke, which he soone after surrender'd, and then the three generalls parted; Lcven went back into the north and tooke the towne of Newcastle, :Fairfax remain' cl in Yorkshire, and Manchester return'd into the south, by the way taking in many smaJl garrisons as he past through the counties. T he <jueene that summer went into Fyance, to sollic ite forreigne ay cl for her husband, but inefrectua ll y; mcancwh ile new treat ies were carried on betweene the king and parl iament, but to no purpose; for the king's false dealing and disingenuity therein was so apparen t that they came to nothing, but a fmther discovery of the king's fitlsehood, and favour of the Irish rebells, with whom he had now employ'd Onnond to treate and conclude a peace. This treaty was that at U xbridge, where commissioners mett on both sides, but u There are very vnri ous and discordant accounts given of this bnttle, so that llapin snys he cou ld · neither satisfY himself nor hi s readers with thcrn: that g iven by Whitelock is however pretty clear, and agrees with thi s of Mrs. Hutchinson, in as... criQi ng the success principally to Cromwell; and as .Mrs . Hntchinson was by no means partial to Cromwell, nor does \Vhitelock upon the whole seem so, we may better believe them than Hollis, who writes a phili.ppic rather than a history. /
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