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Newbury, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
e 27, 1643), that the memory of this deceased Colonel is such that in no age to come but it will more and more be had in honor and esteem; a man so religious, and of that prudence, judgment, temper, valor, and integrity, that he hath left few his like behind him. And we must leave Rupert to his career of romantic daring, to be made President of Wales and Generalissimo of the army,--to rescue with unequalled energy Newark and York and the besieged heroine of Lathom House,to fight through Newbury and Marston Moor and Naseby, and many a lesser field,--to surrender Bristol and be acquitted by court-martial, but hopelessly condemned by the Kin ;--then to leave the kingdom, refusing a passport, and fighting his perilous way to the seaside;--then to wander over the world for years, astonishing Dutchmen by his seamanship, Austrians by his soldiership, Spaniards and Portuguese by his buccaneering powers, and Frenchmen by his gold and diamonds and birds and monkeys and richly liveried Black
Ann Hutchinson (search for this): chapter 6
igh-born in England gravitated more and more to the royal side, while the popular cause enlisted the Londoners, the yeomanry, and those country gentlemen whom Mrs. Hutchinson styled the worsted-stocking members. The Puritans gradually found themselves excluded from the manorial halls, and the Cavaliers (a more inconvenient privati, pilfering, cheating inn-keepers, and insulting women, it is inevitable to infer that in earlier and less stringent times they did the same unpunished. When Mrs. Hutchinson describes a portion of the soldiers on her own side as licentious, ungovernable wretches, --when Sir Samuel Luke, in his letters, depicts the glee with which and abstinence of the Parliamentary party deserve a yet loftier meed,--Vane surrendering an office of thirty thousand pounds a year to promote public economy,--Hutchinson refusing a peerage and a fortune as a bribe to hold Nottingham Castle a little while for the King,--Eliot and Pym bequeathing their families to the nation's jus
Pearson (search for this): chapter 6
the L House of Rimmon, as he called Parliament, to hang him, would have swung the Bible triumphantly to his neck by a ribbon, to show the unscriptural character of their doings. Charles himself, in one of his early addresses to his army, denounced the opposing party as Brownists, Anabaptists, and Atheists, and in his address to the city of London pleaded in favor of his own godly, learned, and painfull preachers. Every royal regiment had its chaplain, including in the service such men as Pearson and Jeremy Taylor, and they had prayers before battle, as regularly and seriously as their opponents. After solemn prayers at the head of every division, I led my part away, wrote the virtuous Sir Bevill Grenvill to his wife, after the battle of Bradock. Rupert, in like manner, had prayers before every division at Marston Moor. To be sure, we cannot always vouch for the quality of these prayers, when the chaplain happened to be out of the way and the colonel was his substitute. O Lord,
Leibnitz (search for this): chapter 6
inted malicious and lying pamphlets against him almost every morning, in which he found himself saluted as a nest of perfidious vipers, a night-flying dragon prince, a flapdragon, a caterpillar, a spider, and a butterbox. He was the King's own nephew,--great-grandson of William the Silent, and son of that Elizabeth Stuart from whom all the modern royal family of England descends. His sister was the renowned Princess Palatine, the one favorite pupil of Descartes, and the chosen friend of Leibnitz, Malebranche, and William Penn. From early childhood he was trained to war; we find him at fourteen pronounced by his tutors fit to command an army,--at fifteen, bearing away the palm in one of the last of the tournaments,--at sixteen, fighting beside the young Turenne in the Low Countries,--at nineteen, heading the advanced guard in the army of the Prince of Orange,and at twenty-three we find him appearing in England, the day before the royal standard was reared, and the day after the Kin
John Wolstenholme (search for this): chapter 6
ance, the Perfect Occurrences repeatedly report soldiers of the Puritan army as cashiered for drunkenness, pilfering, cheating inn-keepers, and insulting women, it is inevitable to infer that in earlier and less stringent times they did the same unpunished. When Mrs. Hutchinson describes a portion of the soldiers on her own side as licentious, ungovernable wretches, --when Sir Samuel Luke, in his letters, depicts the glee with which his men plunder the pockets of the slain,--when poor John Wolstenholme writes to Headquarters that his own compatriots have seized all his hay and horses, so that his wife cannot serve God with the congregation but in frosty weather, --when Vicars in Jehovah Jireh exults over the horrible maiming and butchery wrought by the troopers upon the officers' wives and female campfollowers at Naseby,--it is useless to attribute exaggeration to the other side. In civil war, even the most humane, there is seldom much opening for exaggeration,--the actual horrors b
David Hyde (search for this): chapter 6
of the Cavaliers waved more luxuriantly, the hair of the Roundheads was more scrupulously shorn. And the same instinctive exaggeration was constantly extending into manners and morals also. Both sides became ostentatious; the one made the most of its dissoluteness, and the other of its decorum. The reproachful names applied derisively to the two parties became fixed distinctions. The word Roundhead was first used early in 1642, though whether it originated with Henrietta Maria or with David Hyde is disputed. And Charles, in his speech before the battle of Edgehill, in October of the same year, mentioned the name Cavalier as one bestowed in a reproachful sense, and one which our enemies have striven to make odious. And all social as well as moral prejudices gradually identified themselves with this party division. As time passed on, all that was high-born in England gravitated more and more to the royal side, while the popular cause enlisted the Londoners, the yeomanry, and th
Innis (search for this): chapter 6
uldron, taslets, vambraces, or cuisses,--each with the best piece of iron he could secure when the ancestral armory was ransacked,--they yet care little for the deficit, remembering, that, when they first rode down the enemy at Worcester, there was not a piece of armor on their side, while the Puritans were armed to a man. There are a thousand horsemen under Percy and O'Neal, armed with swords, pole-axes, and petronels; this includes Rupert's own lifeguard of chosen men. Lord Wentworth, with Innis and Washington, leads three hundred and fifty dragoons,--dragoons of the old style, intended to fight either on foot or on horseback, whence the name they bear, and the emblematic dragon which adorns their carbines. The advanced guard, or forlorn hope, of a hundred horse and fifty dragoons, is commanded by Will Legge, Rupert's life-long friend and correspondent; and Herbert Lunsford leads the infantry, the inhuman cannibal foot, as the Puritan journals call them. There are five hundred of
Baxter (search for this): chapter 6
nly return-path across the Cherwell,--Chiselhampton Bridge. Percy and O'Neal with difficulty hold the assailants in check; the case grows desperate at last, and Rupert stands at bay on Chalgrove Field. It is Sunday morning, June 18, 1643. The early church-bells are ringing over all Oxfordshire,--dying away in the soft air, among the sunny English hills, while Englishmen are drawing near one another with hatred in their hearts,--dying away, as on that other Sunday, eight months ago, when Baxter, preaching near Edgehill, heard the sounds of battle, and disturbed the rest of his saints by exclaiming, To the fight! But here are no warrior-preachers, no bishops praying in surplices on the one side, no dark-robed divines preaching on horseback on the other, no king in glittering armor, no Tutor Harvey in peaceful meditation beneath a hedge, pondering on the circulation of the blood, with hotter blood flowing so near him; all these were to be seen at Edgehill, but not here. This smalle
Coligny (search for this): chapter 6
es of Forster, it seems like a procession of born sovereigns; while the more pungent epithets of contemporary wit only familiarize, but do not mar, the tame of Cromwell (Cleaveland's Cesar in a Clown ),--William the Conqueror Waller,--young Harry Vane,--fiery Tom Fairfax,--and , King Pym. But among all these there is no peer of HIampden, of him who came not from courts or camps, but from the tranquil study of his Davila,--from that thoughtful retirement which was for him, as for his model, Coligny, the school of all noble virtues,--came to find himself at once a statesman and a soldier, receiving from his contemporary, Clarendon, no affectionate critic, the triple crown of historic praise, as being the most able, resolute, and popular person in the kingdom. Who can tell how changed the destiny of England, had the Earl of Bedford's first compromise with the country party succeeded, and Hampden become the tutor of Prince Clharles,--or could this fight at Chalgrove Field issue differen
John Eliot (search for this): chapter 6
practised. Let us not underrate the self-forgetting loyalty of the Royalists,--the Duke of Newcastle laying at the King's feet seven hundred thousand pounds, and the MIarquis of Worcester a million; but the sublimer poverty and abstinence of the Parliamentary party deserve a yet loftier meed,--Vane surrendering an office of thirty thousand pounds a year to promote public economy,--Hutchinson refusing a peerage and a fortune as a bribe to hold Nottingham Castle a little while for the King,--Eliot and Pym bequeathing their families to the nation's justice, having spent their all for the good cause. And rising to yet higher attributes, as they pass before us in the brilliant paragraphs of the courtly Clarendon, or the juster modern estimates of Forster, it seems like a procession of born sovereigns; while the more pungent epithets of contemporary wit only familiarize, but do not mar, the tame of Cromwell (Cleaveland's Cesar in a Clown ),--William the Conqueror Waller,--young Harry Van
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