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"I believe, Edward, that you will find that a good one, for I know where it came from. It belonged to one of the rangers, who was reckoned the best shot in the Forest. I know the gun, for I have seen it on his arm, and have taken it in my hand to examine it more than once. He was killed at Naseby, with your father, poor fellow! and his widow sold the gun to meet her wants."
Of the civil war which followed in the reign of Charles I, and of the triumph of English freedom, it is unnecessary to write here. The blasphemy of a man's divine right to rule his fellow-men was ended. Modern England began with the charge of Cromwell's brigade of Puritans at Naseby. Religiously the age was one of even greater ferment than that which marked the beginning of the Reformation.
"Now, by this light," said Sir Geoffrey, "they are the pikes, musketoons, and pistols, that have been hidden in the garret ever since Naseby fight!" "And here," said the Captain's yoke-fellow, Everett, "are proper priest's trappings antiphoners, and missals, and copes, I warrant you ay, and proper pictures, too, for Papists to mutter and bow over."
As he got there the day began to dawn, and he leaned over a hurdle and beheld the shadows flee away. Up went the sun at last out of a bank of clouds that were already disbanding in the east; a herald wind had already sprung up to sweep the leafy earth and scatter the congregated dewdrops. "Alas!" thought Dick Naseby, "how can any other day come so distastefully to me?"
In the Civil War the Royalists captured it from the Parliamentarians, who held it, and it remained in the king's possession until after the defeat at Naseby, when Cromwell recaptured it. Charles II. was proclaimed at Exeter with special rejoicings.
'Yes, saith the Sollicitor for the Excise, 'since his Starry Messenger came forth we had our house burnt, and the Commissioners pulled by their cloaks in the Exchange. 'Pray, sir, when was this, asked old Sir Robert Pye, 'that the house was burnt, and the Aldermen abused? 'It was in such a week, saith he. 'Mr. Lilly, when came the book forth? 'The very day of Naseby fight, answered Mr.
Here are these faithful servants, their home broken up with ours, their children dying, and themselves killed she, by the brutes after Naseby, he, in this last skirmish. 'Tis enough to break a man's heart. And what is to become of this poor little maid?" "Oh! I'll go with your honour," cried Emlyn, stretching out her arms. "I can ride behind Dick, and I'll give no one any trouble.
Pride, wounded honour, pity and respect tussled together daily in his heart; and now he was within an ace of throwing himself upon his father's mercy, and now of slipping forth at night and coming back no more to Naseby House.
Betty looked, and saw George Tressady, with his hands in his pockets, lounging along a distant path beside Marcella Maxwell. "Well!" said Betty, "what then?" Naseby gave his mouth a twist. "Nothing; only it's odd. I ran across them just now I was playing ball with that jolly little imp, Hallin. You never saw two people more absorbed. Of course he's sous le charme we all are.
It was a finishing school to the hardened sinner, which enabled him, in his account of the Holy War, so well to describe every filthy lane and dirty street in the town of Mansoul. Whether Bunyan left the army when Charles was routed at the battle of Naseby, or was discharged, is not known. He returned to his native town full of military ideas, which he used to advantage in his Holy War.
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