Walker, p.

137.
** Clarendon, vol.iv.p.

695.
*** Rush, vii.p.

117.
The news which he received from every quarter, were no less fatal than those events which passed where he himself was present.

Fairfax and Cromwell, after the surrender of Bristol, having divided their forces, the former marched westwards, in order to complete the conquest of Devonshire and Cornwall; the latter attacked the king's garrisons which lay to the east of Bristol.