Note 391 — Chapter III · FRESH INTERFERENCE OF THE SCOTS. CAMPAIGN OF 1644.

I take this notice from Fuller’s Worthies ii. 225. On the Royalist side Newcastle was originally blamed (A. Trevor, in Carte’s Letters i. 58), then Byron, who actually suggested the attack on Cromwell (Rupert’s Diary). The Scots praise Lindsay, Eglinton, above all David Lesley. The Presbyterians defend Fairfax. Cromwell is however praised even by those who were not Independents, as the author of the victory.