other English ioyn'd with them. Yett neere Preston, in Lancashire, they fought, and Cromwell gain'd an entire victory, about the end of August, and hac\ the chace of them for twenty miles, wherein many fell, iLnclmany were taken prisoners. Hamilton himselfe, with a good party of horse, fled Lo U ttoxe ter, and was there taken by the Lord Grey. But, in the beginning of this battle, the valliant Coil. 'l'hornhagh was wounded to death . Being at the beginning of the charge on a horse as couragious as became such a master, he made such furious speed, to se tt upon a company of' Scotch lancicrs, that he was singly engaged and mortally wounded, before it was possibl e for his regiment, though as brave men as ever drew sword, and too afect ionate to their collonell, to be slack in following him, to come time enough to breake the furie of that body, which shamed ' not to unite a ll their force against one man : who yet fell not among them, but being faint and all covered with. blood, of .his enemies as well as his owne, was carried of by some {)f .his owne men, while the rest, enrag'd for the \osse of their cleare collonell, fought not that clay like men of humane race: cleafe to the cries of evety coward that ask' cl mercy, they kill'cl all, and would not a captive should live to see their collonell die; but say'd the whole kingdomc of Scotland was too meane a sacrifice for that brave man. His soule was hovering to take her flight out of his body , but that an eager desire to know the successe of that battle, kept it within, till the end of the day, when the newes being brought him, he clear'd his dying countenance, and say'd, " I now "reioyce to die, since God hath lett me see the overthrow of this " perfidious enemy ; I could not lose my life in a better cause, and " I have the favour from God to see my blood aveng'cl." So he died, with a large testimony of love to his soulcliers, but more to the -cause, and was by mercy remoov'd, that the temptations of future t: Shamed not, used neutrally instead of were not ashamed, blushed not.
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