Here the Roundheads began to throw up a battery, but were mightily inconvenienced while doing so by the guns of the castle, which shot briskly against them.

Working at night, however, in two days they completed the battery, which, on the third morning, opened fire upon the castle.

The guns were much heavier than those upon the walls, and the shot, directed at a curtain between two towers, battered the stone sorely.

The Parliament footmen were drawn back a space from the walls so as to avoid the fire of muskets from the defenders.

There were in all in the castle about two hundred men, one hundred having been collected before the arrival of the troops of horse.