trustworthy William Humphreys; the time was counted by me almost minute by minute; but he did not come. At last I could bear it no longer; "Let the worst come to me," I said to my kind friends, "I must encounter it." They offered me a pony, and one of their servants, and I was soon in safety, and in the midst of the king's troops. Horror-struck, but full of anxious hopes and fears, I wandered over the scene of carnage, but could hear and see nothing of my husband and William Humphreys. I had gone to the spot where the chief encounter had taken place, by the advice of the servant who attended me, and then, as we were quitting the ground, we were told that Lord A had been taken prisoner, and was doubtless some way on the road to London. This intelligence was almost as bad as any I could have heard; my heart misgave me as I thought what was likely to be the fate of a prisoner of rank when taken by the enemy. Before I could determine on what course of conduct I should now pursue, it occurred to me that I ought to visit his tent, and possess myself of any papers and other effects that he had left there. The spot was close at hand, and I went thither immediately. When I entered the tent, I found there the sentinel whom I had seen the night before. He told me that he had been sent to keep guard there within the last few minutes by William Humphreys, and he added, that my husband had been retaken, but that since his deliverance most treacherously wounded, and was then lying on a knoll of grass to which he directed me near the town. The servant that attended me knew the spot perfectly, and in less than a quarter of an hour I was kneeling beside my beloved but expiring husband. Before I proceed to speak of his last moments let me give you the account that I received from William Humphreys, and other eye-witnesses, of what happened to Lord A My husband, after pursuing the enemy that morning for some distance, committed his troop to the officer below him-a veteran of tried valor and character-and accompanied only by William Humphreys (who had told him since the battle, that I was in the immediate neighborhood,) was on his way to the house of my kind friends.—Suddenly, while they were leisurely riding through a little wood, where the path was so narrow that they were obliged to pass singly along it, a small company of the enemy which lay hid there, having been out of the way in search of plunder when the body of the troops had marched that morning, sprung upon them, and almost as soon as they were aware of their presence, they were taken prisoners. By a strange occurrence the leader of the party, a subaltern officer, was a man of our county, and well known to my husband, having been brought before him many years before when he acted as a magistrate, for bad doings of various kinds. He had taken a great dislike to Lord |