General Goring prisoner: the latter obtained a
victory at Gainsborough over a party commanded by the gallant Cavendish,
who perished in the action. But both these defeats of the royalists were
more than sufficiently compensated by the total rout of Lord Fairfax
at Atherton Moor, and the dispersion of his army. After this victory,
Newcastle, with an army of fifteen thousand men, sat down before Hull.
Hotham was no longer governor of this place. That gentleman and his son
partly from a jealousy entertained of Lord Fairfax, partly repenting of
their engagements against the king, had entered into a correspondence
with Newcastle, and had expressed an intention of delivering Hull into
his hands. But their conspiracy being detected, they were arrested and
sent prisoners to London; where, without any regard to their former
services, they fell, both of them, victims to the severity of the
parliament.[*]

Newcastle, having carried on the attack of Hull for some time, was beat
off by a sally of the garrison, and suffered so much that he thought
proper to raise the siege. About the same time, Manchester, who advanced
from the eastern associated counties, having joined Cromwell and
young Fairfax, obtained a considerable victory over the royalists at
Horncastle; where the two officers last mentioned gained renown by their
conduct and gallantry. And though fortune had thus balanced her favors,
the king's party still remained much superior in those parts of England;
and had it not been for the garrison of Hull, which kept Yorkshire in
awe, a conjunction of the northern forces with the army in the south
might have been made, and had probably enabled the king, instead
of entering on the unfortunate, perhaps imprudent, enterprise of
Gloucester, to march directly to London, and put an end to the war.[**]

* Rush, vol. vi. p. 275.

** Warwick, p. 261. Walker, p. 278. laudable.

While the military enterprises were carried on with vigor in England,
and the event became every day more doubtful, both parties cast their
eye towards the neighboring kingdoms, and sought assistance for the
finishing of that enterprise in which their own forces experienced such
furious opposition. The parliament had recourse to Scotland; the king to
Ireland.

When the Scottish Covenanters obtained that end for which they so
earnestly contended, the establishment of Presbyterian discipline in
their own country, they were not satisfied, but indulged st