Heeding not the bugle calls in the camp of the Puritan infantry, they rode straight at the guns.

These were six hundred yards distant, and before the artillerymen could awake to their danger, the Royalists were upon them.

Those that stood were cut down, and in a minute the guns were spiked.

Then the cavalry swept round, and as the Puritan horse hastily formed up, they charged them.

Although but half their numbers, they had the superiority in the surprise at which they took their foes, and in the fact of the latter being but half armed, not having had time to put on their breastplates.