No victory could be more complete than this which was obtained by Cromwell.

About three thousand of the enemy were slain, and nine thousand taken prisoners.
Cromwell pursued his advantage, and took possession of Edinburgh and Leith.

The remnant of the Scottish army fled to Stirling.

The approach of the winter season, and an ague which seized Cromwell, kept him from pushing the victory any further.
The clergy made great lamentations, and told the Lord that to them it was little to sacrifice their lives and estates, but to him it was a great loss to suffer his elect to be destroyed.[*] They published a declaration containing the cause of their late misfortunes.

These visitations they ascribed to the manifold provocations of the king's house, of which, they feared, he had not yet thoroughly repented; the secret intrusion of malignants into the king's family, and even into the camp; the leaving of a most malignant and profane guard of horse, who, being sent for to be purged, came two days before the defeat, and were allowed to fight with the army; the owning of the king's quarrel by many without subordination to religion and liberty; and the carnal self-seeking of some, together with the neglect of family prayers by others.
Cromwell, having been so successful in the war of the sword, took up the pen against the Scottish ecclesiastics.