AUTHOR OF "THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS." IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. CONTENTS ΤΟ THE SECOND VOLUME. MANEUVRES OF THE HOSTILE ARMIES. BATTLE OF EDGEHILL. COURT AT OXFORD. - SKIRMISHES.- ADVANCE ON LONDON. BATTLE OF BRENT- FORD. AFFAIRS AT COLEBROOK, WINDSOR, AND BRENTFORD. CLOSE OF PAGE RUPERT TAKES CIRENCESTER. ESSEX OUTMANOEUVRED. THE QUEEN LANDS IN ENGLAND. BATTLES IN THE WEST.-SIEGE OF LICHFIELD. — WALLER'S PLOT. THE COVENANT. — CHALGROVE FIGHT, AND DEATH OF PRINCE RUPERT'S NEW DIGNITIES.-THE ANTI-PARLIAMENT" MEETS.- OVERTURES FOR PEACE. RUPERT PROCEEDS TO SHREWSBURY AS PRESI- DENT OF WALES. -RELIEF OF NEWARK. OF LATHOM HOUSE. - MARSTON MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF PRINCE RUPERT AND THE CAVALIERS. CHAPTER I. THE DRAWN BATTLE. MANEUVRES OF THE HOSTILE ARMIES. BATTLE OF EDGEHILL. COURT AT OXFORD.-SKIRMISHES.-ADVANCE ON LONDON.-BATTLE OF BRENTFORD.-AFFAIRS AT COLEBROOK, WINDSOR, AND BRENTFORD.-close of THE YEAR. "Fame, if not doubled faced, is double-mouthed; "And so the Lord prosper the work of their hands who stand for God and King Charles !" "His Declaration;" PRINCE RUPERT. We now bid adieu to politics: for good or ill, like Sir Edmund Varney, we are enlisted with the Cavaliers and must take the consequences. The sword is drawn, the scabbard, not thrown away, but lost or hidden under a mountain of angry controversies. Henceforward, like the combatants, we shall be too much occupied in the field to think of ab VOL. II. B |