Bath declared that he placed himself, his troops, and the fortress which he governed at the Prince's disposal.

The invaders therefore had now not a single enemy in their rear.

[533] While the West was thus rising to confront the King, the North was all in a flame behind him.

On the sixteenth Delamere took arms in Cheshire.
He convoked his tenants, called upon them to stand by him, promised that, if they fell in the cause, their leases should be renewed to their children, and exhorted every one who had a good horse either to take the field or to provide a substitute.

[534] He appeared at Manchester with fifty men armed and mounted, and his force had trebled before he reached Boaden Downs.
The neighbouring counties were violently agitated.