8/30 All night the fight continued, and when morning dawned the Royalists were still triumphant. "They have not been properly led yet. When they are, guns and swords must prevail against clubs and stones." At eleven o'clock in the morning a heavy body of cavalry were seen approaching from Westminster. The Roundheads had brought up Cromwell's Ironsides, the victors in many a hard-fought field, against the apprentice boys of London. The Roundhead infantry advanced with their horse. |