tors, and the parliament did the like for the earl.

In the mean time, the lord Fairfax being denied fuccour from Hull, and the eaft riding, was forced to forfake Selby, and retire to Leeds of which the earl, of Newcastle having intelligence, he lay with his army on Clifford moor, to intercept him in his way to Leeds. Whereupon Sir Thomas was ordered by his father to bring what men he could to join with him at Sherburne, on purpose to fecure his retreat.

To amuse the earl, Sir Thomas made a diverfion at Tadcaster, which the garrifon immediately quitted, and whereof he flighted the works. But the lord Goring marching to its relief, with twenty troops of horse and dragoons, defeated Sir Thomas upon Bramhammoor; who alfo received a fecond defeat upon Seacroft-moor, where fome of his men were flain, and many taken prifoners: fo that he made his retreat with much difficulty to Leeds about an hour after his father was fafely come thither and, according to him, this was one of the greatest loffes he ever received.

Leeds and Bradford being all the garrisons the parliament had in the north, Sir Thomas thought it neceffary to poffefs fome other place: therefore, with about one thousand one hundred horfe and foot, he drove, on the twenty-first of May, the Royalists out of Wakefield, which they had feized again; and took one thousand four hundred prifoners,

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eighty officers, and great ftore of ammunition: but, fhortly after, the earl of Newcastle coming to befiege Bradford, and Sir Thomas and his father having the boldness, with about three thousand men, to go and attack his whole army, which confifted of ten thousand men, on Adderton-moor, they were entirely routed by the earl, on the thirtieth of June, with a confiderable loss.

Upon that, Halifax and Beverley being abandoned by the Parliamentarians, and the lord Fairfax having neither a place of strength to defend himself in, nor a garrison in Yorkfhire to retire to, withdrew the fame night to Leeds, to fecure that town; but, by his order, Sir Thomas ftayed in Bradford with eight hundred foot and fixty horfe; wherein being furrounded, he was obliged to force his way through in which defperate attempt, his lady, and many others, were taken prisoners.

At his coming to Leeds, he found things in great distraction, the council of war having refolved to quit the town, and retreat to Hull, which was fixty miles off, with many of the king's garrifons in the way. However, though there were fifty or fixty troops of Royalifts within three miles of Leeds, he got fafely to Selby, where there was a ferry, and and hardby one of the parliament's garrisons at Cawood.

Immediately after his coming to Selby, being attacked by a party of horfe which pur

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fued him, he received a fhot in the wrift of his left arm, which made the bridle fall out of his hand; and, being among the nerves and veins, fuddenly let out fuch a quantity of blood, that he was ready to fall from his horfe; but taking the reins in the other hand, in which he had his fword, he withdrew himself out of the crowd; and, after a very troublefome and dangerous paffage, being often attacked, fometimes in the front, fometimes in the rear, he came to Hull.

Upon these repeated difafters, the Scots were haftily follicited to fend twenty thousand men to the affiftance of the Parliamentarians, who were thus likely to be overpowered.

The lord Fairfax, after his coming to Hull, made it his firft bufinefs to raife new forces; and, in a fhort time, had about one thoufand five hundred foot, and feven hundred horse. The town being little, Sir Thomas was fent to Beverley with the horfe and fix hundred foot; for, the marquis of Newcastle looking upon them as inconfiderable, and leaving only a few garrifons, was marched with his whole army into Lincolnfhire, having orders to go, into Effex, and block up London on that fide. But he was haftily recalled northward, upon the lord Fairfax's fending out a large party. to make an attempt upon Stanford-bridge, near York.

The marquis, at his return into Yorkshire, firft diflodged from Beverley Sir Thomas, who

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retreated into Hull, to which the marquis laid fiege, but could not carry the place. During the fiege, the horse being useless, and many dying every day, Sir Thomas was fent with them over into Lincolnfhire, to join the earl of Manchester's forces, then commanded by major-general Cromwell. At Horn-castle, or Wenfby, they routed a party of five thousand men, commanded by Sir John Henderfon; and, at the fame time, the befieged in Hull making a fally upon the befiegers, obliged them to retire.

These two defeats together, the one falling heavy upon the horfe, the other upon the foot, kept the royalifts all that winter from attempting any thing; and the parliamentarians, after the taking of Lincoln, fettled themselves in winter-quarters. But Sir Tho mas had not long the benefit of them, for in the coldest feafon of the year, he was commanded by the parliament, to go and raise the feige of Nantwich in Cheshire, which the lord Byron, with an army from Ireland, had reduced to great extremity. He fet forward from Lincolnshire December the twentyninth, and, being joined by Sir William Brereton, entirely routed, on the twenty-firft of January, the lord Byron, who was drawn out to meet them. After that they took feveral garrifons in Cheshire, particularly Crew-houfe, &c.

Sir Thomas having ftayed in those parts till the middle of March, was ordered_back by

his father into Yorkshire, that by the conjunction of their forces he might be abler to take the field. They met about Ferry bridge; and colonel Bellafis, governor of York, having advanced to Selby, to hinder their junction, they found means, notwithstanding, to join, and entirely defeated him, on the eleventh of April 1644. This good fuccefs rendered Sir Thomas mafter of the field in Yorkshire, and nothing then hindered him from marching into Northumberland, as he had been ordered by the parliament, to join the Scots, which were kept from advancing fouthward by the fuperior forces of the marquis of Newcastle,. quartered at Durham. But that ftroke having thrown York into the utmost distraction, the inhabitants fpeedily fent to the marquis to haften back thither; by which means a way was left open for the Scots, who with cold and frequent alarins were reduced to great extremity. They joined the lord Fairfax at Wetherby, on the twentieth of April, and marching on to York, laid fiege to that city, wherein the marquis of Newcastle had shut himfelf up; being clofely purfued, on the way thither, by Sir Thomas, and major-general Lefley. And when prince Rupert was advancing out of Lancashire to the relief of that place, they marched with fix thousand horfe and dragoons, and five thoufand foot, to ftop his progrefs: but he eluding their vigilance, and fetching a compafs about with his army, which confilled of above twenty-thousand men,.

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