field of battle, and was a very high one, ranking above all other knights,
excepting the Knights of the Garter. The two tails of the pointed pennon
carried by ordinary knights were cut off, and the flag thus made square.
Hence they were called knights of the square flag.
[5] There is much confusion about the two Cromwell's; Captain Oliver
charged with the right wing, and the son is said to have been with
Ramsay's horse.
[6] Beesley seems to have been unacquainted both with Fiennes' Letter (PB)
as well as with Cromwell's own statement, for he says (b18) "In no account
I have yet met with is Cromwell recorded as being present."
[7] vide Rev. C. F. Wyatt (the rector) in Danvers, p. 326.
Transcriber's Notes:
The mismatched parenthesis on page 40 is presented as in the original
text. Otherwise, punctuation has been corrected without note.
The following misprints have been corrected:
"10,00" corrected to "10,000" (page 15)
"mnst" corrected to "must" (page 18)
"fout" corrected to "four" (page 19)
"hls" corrected to "his" (page 23)
"npon" corrected to "upon" (page 24)
"throught" corrected to "through" (page 49)
"seige" corrected to "siege" (page 75)
"1642. 1642." corrected to "1642." (page 100)
Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in
spelling and hyphenation usage have been retained.
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