ascent of which would be difficult for horsemen in the teeth of anenemy. This is understood to be the ‘Hill’ of the fight referred to here. Good part of it is enclosed, and the ground much altered, since that time; but one of the fields is still called ‘Redcoats Field,’[1] and another at some distance nearer Gainsborough ‘Graves Field’; beyond which latter, ‘on the other or western face of the Hill, a little over the boundary of Lea Parish with Gainsborough Parish, on the left hand (as you go North) between the Road and the River,’ is a morass or meadow still known by the name of Cavendish’s Bog, which points-out the locality.[2]
Of the ‘Hills’ and ‘Villages’ rather confusedly alluded to in the second part of the Letter, which probably lay across Trent Bridge on the Newark side of the river, I could obtain no elucidation,—and must leave them to the guess of local antiquaries interested in such things.[3]
‘General Cavendish,’ whom some confound with the Earl of Newcastle’s brother, was his Cousin, ‘the Earl of Devonshire’s second son’; an accomplished young man of three-and-twenty; for whom there was great lamenting;—indeed a general emotion about his death, of which we, in these radical times, very irreverent of human quality itself, and much more justly of the dresses of human quality, cannot even with effort form any adequate idea. This was the first action that made Cromwell to be universally talked of: He dared to kill this honourable person found in arms against him! ‘Colonel Cromwell gave assistance to the Lord Willoughby, and performed very gallant service against the Earl of Newcastle’s forces. This was the beginning of his great fortunes, and now he began to appear in the world.’[4]
Waller has an Elegy, not his best, upon ‘Charles Ca’ndish.”[5] It must have been written some time afterwards: poor Waller,
