[62] Carte, Original Letters. I. 57, 10 July, 1644. [63] Gardiner, Vol. I. p. 376. [64] Pamphlet. Brit. Mus. Prince Rupert's Message to My Lord of Essex. [65] Vicars' Jehovah Jireh. God's Ark. p. 281. [66] Gardiner. I. p. 377. [67] Carte's Letters, I. p. 56. [68] Whitelocke, p. 94. [69] Vicars' God's Ark. p. 277, [70] Ibid. p. 274. [71] Warburton, II. p. 468. [72] Carte's Letters, I. 59. O'Neil to Trevor, 26 June, 1644. [73] Life of Newcastle, ed. Firth, 1886. p. 81. [74] Pythouse Papers, p. 21. General King to Rupert, Jan. 23, 1645. [75] Rupert's Diary. Warburton, II. 468 [76] Webb, II. 71. [77] Carte's Ormonde, VI. 206. Trevor to Ormonde, 13 Oct. 1644. {154} CHAPTER IX INTRIGUES IN THE ARMY. DEPRESSION OF RUPERT. TREATY OF UXBRIDGE. RUPERT IN THE MARCHES. STRUGGLE WITH DIGBY. BATTLE OF NASEBY Terrible though the disaster in the North had been, the blow was softened to the King by successes in the West. During August, in company with Maurice, he pursued Essex into Cornwall and forced his whole army of foot to surrender without a struggle. But for the supineness of Goring, who had just succeeded Wilmot as General of the Horse, the Parliamentary cavalry might have been captured in like manner. But when Balfour led his troops through the Royalist lines, Goring happened to be carousing in congenial company; he received the news of the escape with laughter, and refused to stir until the enemy were safely passed away.[1] Goring's new prominence and importance was one among the many unfortunate results of Marston Moor. That battle had ruined Rupert's reputation, and it had proportionately raised that of Goring, who alone among the Royalist commanders had had success that day. To Goring, therefore, the King turned, and Goring's licence, negligence, indifference--or perhaps treachery--eventually lost the West completely to the Royalists. Had Rupert been placed in Goring's position he must have certainly effected more than did his rival.