vol.vi.p.

265, etc.

Clarendon, vol.iii.p.

237, 238, etc.
Essex's army had been fully supplied with all necessaries from London; even many superfluities and luxuries were sent them by the care of the zealous citizens; yet the hardships which they suffered from the siege during so early a season had weakened them to such a degree, that they were no longer fit for any new enterprise.

And the two armies for some time encamped in the neighborhood of each other, without attempting on either side any action of moment.
Besides the military operations between the principal armies which lay in the centre of England, each county, each town, each family almost, was divided within itself; and the most violent convulsions shook the whole kingdom.