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Excerpt from The Obsidional Money of the Great Rebellion, 1642-1649
Acting upon the urgent commands of Charles, whose head quarters were then at Oxford, but contrary to the advice of Newcastle, with whose forces he had effected a junction, Rupert, who meant fighting, led forth the army to the moor near Long Marston, upon July 2, and joined battle with the levies of the Parliament, under the joint command of Fairfax and Cromwell. The results of this combat were disastrous to the cause of the King, as the fruits of apparent victory in the earlier stage of the action, were lost, owing to the rashness of Rupert. On the morrow he withdrew his shattered forces into Lancashire and on July 16, York opened its gates to the victors.
One of the results of this battle was the withdrawal of the Marquis of Newcastle from the strife this nobleman, seeing the hopelessness of the Royalist cause, and disgusted that his advice had been disregarded, retired to Scarborough, whence he passed over to the Continent, and remained there until the Restoration.
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