Note 112 — Chapter VII

There is a curious account of the ‘battle of York’ (I.e., Marston Moor) in the Clarendon State Papers at Oxford. The writing is in the same hand as a paper printed in the Clar. State Papers, ii. p. 181, which is endorsed by Hyde, ‘Sir Hugh Cholmeley’s Memorials.’ The writer, whoever he is, tells us he received his account ‘from a gentleman of quality of that country who was a colonel and had a command there and present all the time.’ The other accounts of the battle given by eye-witnesses are nearly all written by Parliamentarians.