The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuR IT AN'S~ - Commonborough, and from thence to Dunbar, where he was reduced to the utmofl: wealth. £1: • h h . I f b . . 1650• re1g ts, avmg ?o way e t ut to conque: or die.. In this extremity he ~.fummoned the officers to prayer; after which he b1d all about him take ·heart, forDod had heard them ; then walki·ng in the earl of Roxborough's ·gardens, that lay ·under the hill upon which theJcots army was encamped, and difcovering by perfpeetive glalfes that they were coming down to at– tack him, be faid God was delivering them into his hands. That night proving very rainy, the general refre£hed his men in the town, and or– dered them to take particular care of their firelocks, which the fcots neg– leCted, who were all the night coming down the hill. Early next morning September 3· the general with a fhong party of horfe beat their guards, and then advancing with his whole army, after about an hour's difpute, eAtered their camp and carried all before him ; about four thoufand fcots -fell in battle, ten thoufand were made prifoners, with fifteen hundred arms, and all their artillery and ammunition; the lofs of the englijh amounting to no more than about three hundred men. 'Vol. VI. 'Tis an odd refleCtion lord Clarendon makes upon this viCtory: " NeP· 377· " ver was viCtory obtained (fays his lordfhip) with lefs lamentation; for " as Cromwell had great argument of triumph, fo the king was glad of " it, , as the greatefl: happinefs that could befal him, in the lofs of fo " flrong a body of his enemies." Such was the encouragement theJcots had to fight for their king! ~cots minif • Immediately after this action, the general took poifeffion of Edinburgh, .nijlerd·s which was in a manner deferted by the clergy; fome having £hut themw vrte to re- \ . h llJ h fl d · h · .er S /' h turn to their fe ves up m t e can e, and ot ers e wit their eneCts to ter mg, t e dnmhes. general to deliver them from their fright, fent a trumpet to the calt!c, to aifure the governor, that the miniflers might return to their churches, and preach without any difi:urbance from him, for he had no quarrel with theJcots nation on the (core of religion. But the minifl:ers replied, that ·having no fecurity for their perfons, they thought it their duty to referve themfelves for better times. Upon which the general writ to the gover– nor; Cromwell'r " THAT his kindnefs ofrered to the minifi:ers in the caflle, was letter 10 ~" " without any fraudulent referve; that if their mafi:er's fer vice was ;;}itf 1 e " ~heir pr!ncipal concern, t~ey wou Id no~ be fo exceffively afraid ofl.fufl'er· Life Crom- " mg for it. That thofe dlVInes had mifreported the conduct of his. pa:– wcll. P· 182 ·" ty, when they charged them with perfecuting the miniflers of Chnlt m " England; for the minijlers in England (jays he) are Jupported, and ~ave " liberty to preach the gqjpe!, though not to rail at their foperiors at difc:e~ ~· .tion; nor under a pretended privilege if charat/er to over-top the ctvtl 2 ~· powers,
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