He was cased in complete armor, but was shot through the eye by a random ball.

Lord Broke was a zealous Puritan; and had formerly said, that he hoped to see with his eyes the ruin of all the cathedrals of England.

It was a superstitious remark of the royalists, that he was killed on St.Chad's day by a shot from St.
Chad's cathedral, which pierced that very eye by which he hoped to see the ruin of all cathedrals.

Dugdale, p.

118.
Clarendon, etc.
* Whitlocke, p.66.Rush.