Secretary that 'it were a shame that so honourable a trophy of war should be borne by a penman.' To which suggestions the credulous guardian of this honourable trophy consenting, surrendered it to the disguised cavalier, who galloped back with it amain, and before evening received knighthood[4] under its shadow." Brooke's, Hollis', and Ballard's infantry, moved across part of the ground abandoned by Ramsay's horse to attack the right flank of the King's centre, an attack which soon becomes as disastrous to the Royalists as that on the other flank where Lindsay has fallen. In fact, the regiments of foot from the Parliamentary rear with Constable's infantry and Stapleton's horse, made a combined assault upon the King's centre, which they commenced breaking up. In vain were the royalist reserves hurried forward. The Blue Regiment was cut off by Sir Arthur Haselrigge. Stapleton made a dash, and the King, who had been watching the fickle fortunes of his soldiers from a mound (now the King's Clump) near Radway, narrowly escaped being made a prisoner. The timely interference of a body of royalist horse--an interference not of sufficient weight to _stop_ the tide of the Puritan attack, but only to stay it for a few moments--enabled the King to gain the shelter of the hill, whither also the fragments of some of his regiments are compelled to follow. [Illustration: II BATTLE OF EDGE HILL. Advance of Hampden_Retreat of Rupert & King] Meanwhile Rupert had been lost to sight in Kineton streets. When he learned that the fortunes of the day were, in other parts of the field, in full flow against his cause, he and his cavaliers re-formed for the retreat. The place is still known as Prince Rupert's Headland. There was, however, another factor to be taken into consideration. Some of Hampden's green-coated soldiers, stimulated no doubt by the sounds of the fight, had in the meantime come up from Stratford-on-Avon, and were prepared to dispute Rupert's return. They also succeeded in re-forming many of the fugitives, in which duty Captains Cromwell,[5] Nathaniel Fiennes and Kightley, took part.[q] The guns and infantry opened fire upon the retreating cavaliers, who had a hard fight to regain the hill butt, for Stapleton's horse, after fighting along the whole of the Royalist line, chased them home. Nevertheless, two of the royal regiments refused to be beaten; falling back upon their guns, they made a stand, probably along the line from Radway to Bullet Hill, and there, reinforced by Rupert's returning troops, they held their ground, repulsing the Parliamentarian attacks, and so says Fiennes,[PB] "horse and foot stood together against horse and foot until night, when the Royalists retired up hill." It is probably from this stage of the fight that Bullet Hill got its name. The braided lovelock of many a cavalier who rode so exultingly down the hill in the afternoon sunlight had a stain of a far deeper colour 'ere sunset,