[The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. by David Hume]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. CHAPTER LVII 9/64
Sir Thomas Fairfax, alarmed at so considerable a progress of the royalists, assembled an army of four thousand men in Yorkshire, and having joined Sir William Brereton, was approaching to the camp of the enemy.
Biron and his soldiers, elated with successes obtained in Ireland, had entertained the most profound contempt for the parliamentary forces; a disposition which, if confined to the army, may be regarded as a good presage of victory; but if it extend to the general, is the most probable forerunner of a defeat.
Fairfax suddenly attacked the camp of the royalists.
The swelling of the river by a thaw divided one part of the army from the other.
That part exposed to Fairfax, being beaten from their post, retired into the church of Acton, and were all taken prisoners; the other retreated with precipitation.[v] * Clarendon, vol.iii.p.
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