The Fall of the Monarch of Charles I

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...brought by him to Toby Matthew, was printed about this time, and I suspect that this is the one., 2 Bossing-ham's Newsletter, Add. MSS. I 1,045, fol. 9. 3 Windebank to the King, June 8. The King's letter is not preserved, but it seems to have reached London on the 6th, and so to have been written on the 2nd. According to Salvetti, orders were given to levy ten or twelve thousand men (Salvetti's Newsletter, June $51-), but this is doubtless only the echo of the false rumour which VVindebank was to give out. See p. 219. June 2. June 3. The Scots at Kelso. 3I, AP-to Holland to take with him 3,000 foot and 300 horse June 3. _ straggled along weary and footsore. Yet their K@'B0-officers believed that, inexperienced as they were, . they would have acquitted themselves well if they had come to blows.' That day no opportunity was given them to display their courage._ Riding' hastily forward at the head of his horse, Holland found himself face to face with a Scottish force ad vancing to meet him. His men perhaps exaggerated the numbers of the enemy as six, eight, or even ten thousand, and it was averred by some that an addi. tional force of 3,000 Highlanders was lying in ambush armed with bows and arrows? Holland at first pro posed to fall back on the infantry, and to make the attack with both arms. But he soon discovered that he was far outnumbered, and preferred to send a trumpeter to the Scots to ask them what they were doing within the ten miles limit. The Scots asked him scornfully in return, what he was doing in their country. He had better be gone, or they would teach him the way. There was nothing for it but to retreat to the camp beyond the Tweed.3 Holland was but a carpet knight, and contemporaries and posterity...