him to have him punished, as he hath written to my Lord _Wharton_ concerning him, to let you know so much. Master _Bond_ whom he citeth for one of his authors, denies that ere he spake to my brother at all, or that he saw any such thing of flying, as that base fellow reporteth, and this your Lordship shall have under his hand. It had been a strange thing if my brother that shewed so much courage at _Worcester_, should have been so faint-hearted on this occasion; But I strange that men will give credit to every idle fellow; if they will, they may heare that my Lord Generall and all the Officers, every one of them ran away. But my Lord, as your Lordship hath great cause to be thankfull, together with us, to God, that in all these late actions of danger, hath preserved the persons and lives of all your three Sons, so also for preserving their honors, and the honor of Religion; that in this cause they have never flinsht, but have all of them in their severall places and conditions been as forward to hazard their persons into the midst of their's and God's enemies as any whosever. And of the truth of this (though we do not vapour so much as some do) there are enough, and those very honorable witnesses that can and will affirm it as well as _Your Lordship's most obedient Son_, NATHANIEL FIENNES. A most true Relation of the Battell fought by his Excellency and his Forces against the bloudy Cavalliers. The two and twentieth of _October_, being _Saturday_, his Excellency the Earl of _Essex_ came with twelve regiments of Foot, and two and forty Troops of Horse, and a part of the Ammunition and Artillery, to _Keynton_, a little Market Toun, almost in the mid-way between _Stratford_ upon the Avon, and _Banbury_, there being three Regiments of Foot, and nine or ten Troops of Horse, with seven Pieces of Cannon, and good store of Ammunition coming after, together with six Companies of Dragooners; the Dragooners, and two of the Regiments of Foot, with the Cannon, and nine or ten Troops of Horse, came to _Keynton_ on _Sunday_ night, a little before the day went down; The Regiment, with the Lord Rochfords, came not into the Army till Monday in the afternoon. The King's Army was lodged on Saturday night, about Croprede and Edgecot, some 6 or 7 miles from _Keynton_; and having, no doubt, got intelligence that part of our Army, and Artillery, with a great part of our Ammunition was behinde us, they thought they could not have a better opportunity to fight with our Army, especially if they could get the advantage of the hill before us, it being a very high and steep assent, which if they were put to the worst might serve them for a Retreat, as it did, it being that which saved them, their Carriages, and the Colours of their Regiments of Foot that ran away; for of those that fought it out, we tooke most of them, excepting onely those two Regiments that stood it out till night, and went off with their horse in an orderly way.