with some in Parliament who found it afterwards to their own Trouble The Army marcht nearer London and at Windsor after two days debate in a Council of War it was resolv'd to remove all out of the House whom they conceiv'd did obstruct as they call'd it the Publick Settlement I was prest to use all Expedition in this March but here I resolv'd to use a restrictive Power where I had not a Persuasive And when the Lieutenant-General and others did urge me to sign Orders for marching I still delay'd it as ever dreading the Consequences of breaking Parliaments and at a time when the Kingdom was falling into a new War which was so near that my delaying three or four days giving out Orders diverted this Humour of the Army from being Statesmen to their more proper Duty as Soldiers Then did Collonel Poyer declare in Wales great Forces did rise with my Lord Goring in Kent and Duke Hamilton came into England almost at the same time with a Powerful Army of Scots all which set out work enough that Summer This I write to shew how by Providence a few days of delay secur'd the Parliament above a Year from the Violence which soon after was offered them I might here mention those great and difficult Actions the Army perform'd that Year which were design'd for the Good of the Kingdom but that Factious Party growing more Insolent as Success made them more powerful I shall forbear to relate them which otherwise would have deserv'd a better remembrance than in Modesty were fit for me to give I shall rather punish my self with the continuance of this Story of the Irregularities of the Army But I must not forget one thing of very great Concernment in the after Changes which should have been inserted before the mentioning of this Second War The King's removal from Holmby the sad Consequences whereof fill my Heart with Grief in the remembrance of them as they did then with Care how to prevent them Being at Saffron-Walden in Essex I had notice that Cornet Joyce an Arch-Agitator who Quarter'd about Oxford had seized on the King's Person removed his Guards and given such a Check to the Commissioners of Parliament who were ordered there to attend His Majesty that they refused to act any further on their Commission being so unwarrantably interrupted So soon as I heard of it I immediately sent away two Regiments of Horse Commanded by Colonel Whaley to remove this Force and to set all things again in their due Course and Order But before he came to Holmby the King was advanced two or three Miles on his way to Cambridge attended by Joyce where Colonel Whaley acquainted the King he was sent by the General to let him know how much he was troubled at those great Insolencies that had been committed so near his Person and as he had not the least knowledge of them before they were done so he had omitted no time in seeking to remove that Force which he had Orders from me to see done And therefore he desired His Majesty that he would be pleased to return again to Holmby where all things should be settled again in as much Order and Quietness as they were before And also he desired the Commissioners to reassume their Charge as the Parliament had directed them which he was also to desire them to do from the General But the King refused to return and the Commissioners to Act whereupon Colonel Whaley urged them to it saying He had an express Command to see all things well settled again about His Majesty which could not be done but by His returning again to Holmby The King said positively he would not do it so the Colonel prest him no more to it having indeed a special Direction from me to use all Tenderness and Respect as was due to His Majesty The King came that Night or the next to Sir John Cutts's House near Cambridge and the next day I waited on His Majesty it being also my business to persuade his Return to Holmby but he was otherwise resolv'd I prest the Commissioners also to Act according to the Power given them by the Parliament which they also refus'd to do So having spent the whole day about this business I return'd to my Quarters and as I took leave of the King he said to me Sir I have as good Interest in the Army as you by which I plainly saw the broken Reed he lean'd on The Agitators could change into that Colour which served next to their ends and had brought the King into an Opinion that the Army was for him That it might appear what a real trouble this Act was to me though the Army was almost wholly infected with this Humour of Agitation I call'd for a Council of War to proceed against Joyce for this high Offence and breach of the Articles of War but the Officers whether for fear of the distemper'd Soldiers or rather as I suspected a secret allowance of what was done made all my endeavours in this ineffectual And now no Punishment being able to reach them all Affairs were steer'd after this Compass the King and his Party in Hopes those of the Parliament and others who kept to their Covenant Interest in Fears so as for many Months all Publick Councils were turn'd into private Junto's which begot greater Emulations and Jealousies among them So that the Army would not trust the King any longer with the Liberty he had nor the Parliament suffer the Army to undertake that which was more properly their own Work to Settle the Kingdom in its just Rights and Liberties and the Army was as Jealous that the Parliament would not have care enough of their Security All things growing worse and worse made the King endeavour to escape which he did but out of a larger Confinement at Hampton-Court to a straiter one in the Isle of Wight Here the Parliament treated upon Propositions of Peace with the King but alas the envious one sowed Tares that could not be rooted out but by plucking up the Corn also The King was the Golden Ball cast before the two Parties the Parliament and the Army and the Contest grew so great that it must again have involv'd the Kingdom in Blood but the Army having the greater Power got the King again into their 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THE Lord Fairfax's MEMORIALS SHORT MEMORIALS OF THOMAS Lord Fairfax Written by Himself LONDON Printed for Ri. Chiswell and are to be Sold at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1699. TO THE Right Honourable THOMAS Lord FAIRFAX MY LORD IT is with Your Lordship's leave that this short Manuscript of my Lord Fairfax Your Noble Predecessor is now Printed from the Original written in his own Hand and left in Your Study at Denton in Yorkshire for it was never intended by him to be Published but to remain for the Satisfaction of his own Relations But of late something has hapned which in the judgment of Your Lordship and many other Persons of Condition makes it necessary that these Papers should be sent to the Press which is now done without any Material Alterations from the Original but only by placing them in the natural order of Time Tho' no Copy was ever taken by Your Lordship's Consent yet I know not how some imperfect Ones are got into other Hands And this being an Age wherein every Man presumes to Print what he pleases of his own or other Mens we are plainly told That my Lord Fairfax's Memorials are ready to be Published and by the very same Person who has lately set forth some Memoirs wherein his Lordship is scarce ever nam'd but with Reproach not to be excused by what the Editor himself confesses That the Author was much out of humour when he writ the Book My Lord Fairfax's True Character is better known to many Wise and Good Men than to be blemished by such envious Detractions Nor can his Reputation thereby suffer with any who were acquainted with his Person and the true Intentions of his Actions and knew him in the latter part of his Life His great Misfortune and so he accounted it was to be engaged in the Unhappy Wars whereof he desired no other Memorial than the Act of Oblivion which few that ever needed better deserved It cannot be denied but as a Soldier his Life would furnish as Noble a Memoir as the Age has produced from the time that he began with a Troop of Horse and a few undisciplined Forces in the North to his being General of a Victorious Army in the South which he Governed not as a Cypher but with great Prudence and Conduct in Councils of War as well as animated by his Personal Courage in the Field as long as they had any Enemy to oppose them But after that they broke into Factions and were over-run with Enthusiasm and became Vngovernable by their General when they chose their own Agitators and were managed by Men of the deepest Dissimulation and Hypocrisie by whose fair but treacherous Promises some Greater than Himself were deceived to their own Ruin That most Tragical and Deplorable part of the Civil War the Death of the King he utterly from his Soul abhorred and lamented to his dying day and never mentioned it but with Tears in his Eyes The retired part of his Life gave him greater Satisfaction than all his former Victories when he lived quietly at his own House at Nun-Appleton in Yorkshire always earnestly wishing and praying for the Restitution of the Royal Family and fully resolved to lay hold on the first good Opportunity to contribute his part towards it which made him always lookt upon with a jealous eye by the Usurpers of that time As soon as he was invited by General Monk to assist him against Lambert's Army he cheerfully embraced the Occasion and appeared at the Head of a brave Body of Gentlemen of Yorkshire and upon the Reputation and Authority of his Name the Irish Brigade of Twelve Thousand Horse forsook Lambert's Army and joyned with him the Consequence was the immediate breaking of all Lambert's Forces which gave General Monk an easy March into England This was always acknowledged not only by General Monk but by the King himself as a signal Testimony of his Zeal to make amends for what was past and of the very considerable Assistance he gave towards the restoring the Royal Family After he had waited on his Majesty in Holland as one of the Commissioners sent to invite him home and had seen the King establish'd on his Throne he retired again into his own Country where he died in Peace in the 60th Year of his Age Anno 1671. leaving behind him his only Daughter the Lady Mary Dutchess of Buckingham I shall now say no more of him but That so long as Unfeigned Piety towards God Invincible Courage joyned with wonderful Modesty and exceeding Good Nature Justice and Charity to all men in his private Life and an Ingenuous Acknowledgment of his Publick Error with hearty Endeavours to make Reparation as soon as he was convinced of it shall be esteemed in the World So long shall the Name of my Lord Fairfax be honoured by good Men and be had in perpetual Remembrance Your Lordship had the good fortune to be born after the Storms and Tempests of that Age But you have had the Honour to appear eminently in defence of our Religion and Civil Rights in this last happy Revolution as your Noble Predecessor did at the Restoration My LORD Apr. 22. 1699. I am Your most affectionate Uncle and humble Servant Brian Fairfax A short MEMORIAL of the Northern Actions in which I was engag'd during the War there from the Year 1642 to the Year 1644. IN Gratitude to God for his many Mercies and Deliverances and not to deprive my self of the Comfort of their Remembrance I shall set down as they come into my Mind those things wherein I have found the wonderful Assistance of God to me in the Time of the War in the North though not in that methodical and polish'd Manner as might have been done being intended only for my own Satisfaction and help of my Memory My Father was call'd forth by the Importunity of his Country to join with them in their own Defence which was confirm'd by a Commission from the Parliament The first Action we had was at Bradford We were about three hundred Men the Enemy seven or eight hundred and two Pieces of Ordnance They assaulted us We drew out close to the Town to receive them They had the Advantage of the Ground the Town being encompassed with Hills which exposed us more to their Cannon from which we receiv'd some Hurt but our Men defended those Passages by which they were to descend so well that they got no ground of us and now the day being spent they drew off and retired to Leeds A few days after Captain Hotham with three Troops of Horse and some Dragoons came to us Then We march'd to Leeds but the Enemy having Notice of it quitted the Town and in haste fled to York We advanc'd to Tadcaster eight Miles from York that we might have more room and be less burthensome to Our Friends and being increased to one thousand Men it was thought fit that we should keep the Pass at
on with their whole Body which was about 4000 Horse and 12000 Foot We stood till they were come very near to us I then drew off having given direction before for the Foot to March away towards Hull and thinking to make good the Retreat with the Horse The Enemy with a good Party came up in our Reer the Lanes being narrow we made good shift with them till we got into Beverley and shut the Gate which we had scarce time to do they being so close to us In this business we lost Major Layton and not above two more The Enemy not knowing what Forces we had in the Town stay'd till the rest of the Army came up which was about a Mile behind This gave our Foot some advantage in their Retreat it being five Miles to Hull and the way on narrow Banks I sent the Horse by Cottingham a more open Road who got well thither they overtook the Foot and made good their Retreat till we got to a little Bridge two Miles from Hull where we made a stand The Enemy followed close Our Men gave them a good Volley of Shot which made them draw back and they advanced no further So leaving a small Guard at the Bridge we got safe to Hull Thus not only for want of Military Skill in the Gentlemen of the Committee but to say no more for want of good Nature we were expos'd to this trouble and danger My Lord of Newcastle now laid Siege to Hull but at a great distance for the Sluces were let open and drowned the Land for two Miles about the Town Yet upon a Bank which was the Highway he approached so near as to shoot Cannon Shot at random into the Town and for the most part hot Bullets but by the Diligence and Care of the Governour who caused every Inhabitant to watch his own House the Danger was prevented Our Horse was now useless and many dyed every Day having nothing but salt Water about the Town I was therefore sent over with the Horse into Lincoln-shire to join with the Earl of Manchester's Forces which were then Commanded by Major General Cromwel who received us at our Landing with his Troops Sir John Henderson lay within three or four Miles of this Place with 5000 Men to prevent our Conjunction but durst not attempt it He marched three or four Days near unto us but for want of good Intelligence we did not know so much For I altogether trusted to the Care of our new Friends being a Stranger in those Parts At Horncastle one Morning he fell upon our out Guards who being but newly raised in that Country fled towards Lincoln without giving any Allarm to our Quarters that lay dispersed and secure Sir John Henderson marching slowly with his Army gave the Allarm to some of our out Quarters which was soon taken in all the rest Yet we were in some disorder before we could get into any considerable Body My Lord Willoughby with his Horse and my Dragoons Commanded by Collonel Morgan brought up the Reer and after some Skirmishes we lodg'd that Night in the Field The next Day the Earl of Manchester came to us with his Foot the Day following we advanced toward the Enemy and chusing a convenient Ground to fight on we drew up the Army there The Enemy did so on the side of another Hill close by having a little Plain betwixt us Lieutenant General Cromwel had the Van I the reserve of Horse my Lord Manchester all the Foot After we had faced one another a good while the Forlorn Hopes began the Fight presently the Bodies met on the Plain where the Fight was hot for half an Hour but then they were forced to a Rout 200 kill'd and many taken Prisoners This was the issue of Horncastle Fight or as some call it Winsby Fight At the same instant we heard great shooting of Ordinance towards Hull which was a Sally my Father made out of the Town upon my Lord of Newcastle's Trenches who drew out most part of his Army to relieve them But our Men charged so resolutely that they possess'd themselves of the Canon and pursuing their Advantage put the Enemy to a total Rout upon which he raised the Siege and returned again to York These two Defeats together the one falling heavy upon the Horse the other upon the Foot kept the Enemy all that Winter from attempting any thing and we after the taking of Lincoln setled our selves in Winter Quarters In the coldest Season of the Year I was commanded by the Parliament to go and raise the Siege at Nantwich which the Lord Byron with the Irish Army had reduced to great Extremity I was the most unfit of all their Forces being ever the worst Paid my Men sickly and almost naked I desir'd the Parliament that they would be pleas'd to supply these Wants not excusing my self as some did who had no will to stir though well enough accommodated The Parliament's answer was a positive direction to March for it would admit of no delay But foreseeing I should have such a return to my Desires and considering the necessity of the Business I had upon my own Credit got so much Cloath as Cloathed 1500 Men and all were ready to March when these Orders came to me The twenty ninth of December we set forward from Falkingham in Lincolnshire with 1800 Horse and 500 Dragâ—oons and power to call the Regiments of Foot in Lancashire and Cheshire to make up the Body of the Army which I found was not a little trouble when I came to Manchester for some were thirty some forty Miles distant besides the dissatisfaction of some of their Collonels who went as their particular Safety or Interest sway'd them But finding more readiness in the inferior Officers and common Soldiers I got up in a few Days near 3000 Foot With this Army we marched to Nantwich which was at the point of Surrendring When we came within a Days March I had Intelligence the Lord Byron had drawn off his Siege and intended to meet us in the Field I put my Men into the Order in which I intended to Fight and continued my March till we came within three Miles of the Town There was a Pass kept with about 250 Men I sent Collonel Morgan with his Dragoons who beat them off in which his Brother was slain The Major who commanded the other Party with some others was taken Prisoner We marched on till we came within Cannon shot of their Works where half of their Army was drawn up And we were inform'd that the River which runs through the Town being raised with the melting of the Snow hinder'd those that lay on the other side of the Town from joining with them We call'd a Council of War wherein it was debated whether we should attempt those in their Works being divided from the rest of the Army or march into the Town and relieve them and by the increase of our Force be better able the
next day to encounter them This last was resolv'd on and making way with Pioneers through the Hedges we marched to the Town but after we had gone a little way word came that the Enemy was in the Reer We faced about with two Regiments and my own Regiment of Horse commanded by Major Rokeby and reliev'd those that were engaged and so the Fight began on all sides These that fell on our Reer were that part of their Army that lay on the other side of the Town who had past the River Those who were drawn up under their Works fell upon our Van which was marching to the Town Thus was the Battel divided there being a quarter of a Mile betwixt us in the Division that first engag'd Our Foot at the beginning gave a little Ground but our Horse recover'd this by beating the Enemies Horse out of the Lanes that flanked our Foot which did so encourage our Men that they regain'd their Ground on the Enemy and made them retreat from Hedge to Hedge 'till at length they were forced to fly to their Works Their Horse retreated in better Order towards Chester without much Loss Our other Wing being assisted from the Town who sally'd out with seven or eight hundred Musketeers beat the Enemy back into the same Works We presently surrounded them and being in great Disorder and Confusion they soon yielded themselves Prisoners with all their chief Officers Arms Colours and Ammunition Thus by the Mercy of God was this Victory obtain'd being the more signal in that we were not to deal with young Soldiers but with Men of great Experience and an Army which had ever been victorious After this we took in several Garrisons in Cheshire Latham only in Lancashire held out which was besieg'd by the Forces of that County but afterward the Siege was rais'd by Prince Rupert Having spent three or four Months in this Expedition my Father commanded me back into York-shire that by the Conjunction of our Forces he might be abler to take the Field We met about Ferry-bridge he being come out of Hull thither with intent to fall upon the Enemies Garrison at Selby I receiv'd at this time another Command from the Parliament to march immediately with my Horse and Dragoons into Northumberland to join with the Scots Army The Earl of Newcastle who was then at Durham being much stronger in Horse than they for want of which they could not advance But it being resolv'd within a Day or two to storm Selby I stay'd 'till that business was over which proved as effectual for the relief of the Scots Army The Governour of York Coll. Bellasis lay in Selby with 2000 Men. We drew our Horse and Foot close to the Town Sir John Meldrum led on the Foot which had their several Posts appointed them where they should storm I with the Horse ready to second them The Enemy within defended themselves stoutly a good while Our Men at length beat them from the Line but could not advance further because of the Horse within I got a Barricado open which let us in betwixt the Houses and the River here we had an encounter with their Horse After one Charge they fled over a Bridge of Boats to York their Horse came up and charged us again where my Horse was overthrown I being single a little before my Men who presently reliev'd me and forced the Enemy back They retreated also to York In this Charge we took Coll. Bellasis Governour of York By this time the Foot had entred the Town and had taken many Prisoners This good Success of ours put them into great Distraction and Fear at York so that they speedily sent to the Earl of Newcastle to haste back thither believing we would presently attempt them This News suddenly call'd him back leaving the Scots who with Cold and often Allarms were reduced to great Extremity but now they advance after him The Earl of Newcastle gets into York the Scots join with my Father at Wetherby altogether made 16000 Foot and 4000 Horse They march on to York For the Siege of York it was thought necessary to have more Men the Town being large in compass and strongly mann'd The Earl of Craford Lindsey and my Self were sent to the Earl of Manchester to desire him to join with us in the Siege to which he willingly consented bringing an addition of 6000 Foot and 3000 Horse Now the Army had three Generals Lesly Manchester and Fairfax who lay apart in three several Quarters before the Town but the North side still remain'd open Some time was spent here without any considerable Action till in my Lord of Manchester's Quarters Approaches were made to St. Marry's Tower and they soon came to mine it Coll. Crayford a Scotchman who commanded that Quarter sprung the Mine being ambitious to have the Honour alone of it without acquainting the other two Generals for their Advice and Concurrence which prov'd very prejudicial for having engaged his Party against the whole Strength of the Town without more Forces to second him he was repulsed with the loss of three hundred Men for which he had surely been call'd to an Account but escaped the better by reason of this Triumviral Government Soon after Prince Rupert came to relieve the Town We rais'd the Siege Hessey Moore was appointed the Randezvous The whole Army drew thither About a Mile from thence lay the Prince the River Ouse being betwixt us which he that night past over at Popleton The next day he drew his Army into the same Moore which being now joined with my Lord of Newcastles Army made about 23 or 24000 Men We something more We were divided in our Opinions what to do The English were for Fighting the Scots for Retreating to gain as they alledg'd both Time and Place of more Advantage This being resolv'd on we marched away to Tadcaster which made the Enemy advance the faster Lieutenant General Cromwell Lesley and my Self were appointed to bring up the Reer We sent word to the Generals of the necessity of making a stand or else the Enemy having this Advantage might put us in some disorder But by the advantage of the Ground we were on we hoped to make it good till they came back to us which they did The Place was Marston Fields which afterwards gave the name to this Battel Here we drew up our Army The Enemy was drawn up in Battalia on the Moore a little below us The day being most part spent in Preparations We now began to descend towards them Lieutenant General Cromwell commanded the left Wing of the Horse and seconded by Major General Lesley I had the right Wing with some Scots Horse and Lances for my Reserves The three Generals were with the Foot Our left Wing first charged the Enemies right Wing which was perform'd for a while with much Resolution on both sides but the Enemy at length was put to the worst Our right Wing had not all so good success by