Note 103 — Chapter XII
Reading edition
Leadman’s Battles Fought in Yorkshire, p. 135. Clarendon also mentions the pipe incident (Clarendon State Papers, No. 1805), but he gives a rather different account of it. This opportunity may be taken of saying that the accounts of the Battle of Marston Moor are so conflicting, that, for once, the scribe has departed from his usual custom of making his witnesses speak for themselves, and has attempted to give the substance of the story as best as he can, after studying the various, and very varying, authorities on the subject.