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MUSGRAYE’S RELATION
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men, whoe upon notice of our advance marched away in the
night in much disorder; if the Scotts would have marched that
day directly to Penrith, (as he quartered 2 miles short of it),
we had found the enemy in much disorder, and probably dis¬
persed that body.1
But Lambert hath time to martch to Appleby, and the Duke
stais 2 dais at Penrith 10 miles short of the enemy, and then
marches toward Appleby where the enemy kept the bridge
against uss, the river not beeing fordable, but before day next
morneing the enemy marched away towards Yorkshire, and
took upp their quarters about Barnard castle. The Duke
stais a fornight neer Appleby. In the mean time, the Eng¬
lish beseedg Appleby Castle, and had it surrendred to
them.2 When most of the Duke’s army were come into
Cumberland, he martches to Kendale, their he stais a fortnight
longer, the English quarter in the scirts of Yorkshire. I am
able to say nothing of my owne knowledge of the fight at
Preston :3 but when the nues of it came unto Sir Thomas
Tildesley (who was then with a part of the English forces
before Lancaster castle) he drue off, and joyning with those
English that weer gott oft' from Preston, and others that weer
left behinde in Westmoorland, they went to Major Generali
Monro (who was then upon the confines of Lancashire), and
move that his forces, the Scotch that weer about Kendale, and
the English might martch together to Preston,* but hee would
not consent to it, but retreated to the other end of Westmoor¬
land, whither the English followed him, and seconded their
motion of a conjunction with them, but he held to his former
* Thes forces conjoined would have made a body of above 7000 horse
and foot.
1 See p. ii, ante, note.
2 Appleby Castle surrendered to Lambert about the end of July. A letter
from Newcastle, dated Friday, Aug. 4, says it was given up on the Saturday
preceding.—•/’wrAww-M, vii. 1219. The place was almost immediately recaptured
by Langdale.—Burnet, Lives of the Hamilton!, p. 452. Captain John Hodgson
gives a brief account of its recapture.—Memoirs, p. 31, ed. 1882.
3 Clarendon’s account of the battle of Preston (Book xi. 73-76) is almost
entirely based upon a narrative written for his use by Sir Marmaduke Langdale.
This narrative has been twice printed. See Carte’s Original Letters, i. 161,
and the Fairfax Correspondence, iv. 60.