SECOND EDITION. Banbury: E. A. Walford, 71 & 72, High Street. London: Castle, Lamb & Storr, Salisbury Square. 1904....

For the present edition the available material of the last eighteen years has been consulted, but the plans of battle are similar to two of those of my book of 1886. They were then the first series of diagrammatic representations of the fight published, but in no case has this been acknowledged in the many plans of like kind subsequently published. Some new facts and inferences the author hopes may increase the value of the account. The letters of Captain Nathaniel Fiennes and Captain Kightley,

In the following pages an endeavour has been made to give a concise account of the physical features of the Edge Hill district, as well as to describe the events of the first great battle of the Civil War, with which it is so intimately associated. The intention is to provide a handbook for the guidance of the visitor rather than to attempt any elaborate historical or scientific work. Though Nugent’s “Memorials of John Hampden” has supplied the basis of the information, Clarendon’s “History of t

T o Edge Hill from Banbury a good road trends gradually up hill nearly the whole way. It rises from the 300 foot level of the Cherwell Vale to 720 at the highest ground of the ridge of the hill. At a distance of eight miles to the North-West is the edge or escarpment of high ground bounded on the East side by the vale of a tributary of the Cherwell, and on the North and West by the plain drained by the tributaries of the Avon. From Warmington, six miles from Banbury, North-Westwards to the point

T he reign of King Charles I. showed a widening of the difference between the ecclesiastic and puritan elements of the English community—elements which were the centres of the subsequently enlarged sections, royalist and parliamentarian. In the later dissentions between the King and the Commons it was early apparent how widespread had been the alienation of the people from the King’s cause—an alienation heightened, as Green in his “Short History” tells us, by a fear that the spirit of Roman Cath

E arly on the morning of Sunday, October 23rd, Prince Rupert forwarded information to the King that the camp fires of the Parliamentarian army had been seen on the plain between Edge Hill and Kineton. With keen foresight Earl Lindsay abandoned the intended advance upon Banbury, and speedily began the movement of the Royalist army towards the fringe of hills which dominates the Warwickshire vale. It seems at first strange that the Parliamentarians, familiar as so many of them were with the physic

T he Geology of the Edge Hill region presents points of study to the student of the physical phases of the science rather than to the palæontologist, though it does not appear in either case that the conditions presented are difficult to read. Beginning with the low range of hills three miles N.W. of Kineton, forming the Trias outcrop, and fringed with a thin development of Rhætics, we cross the broad plain of the Lower Lias almost without undulation, save in the ridge which stretches from Gaydo

STATISTICAL TABLE. Banbury, in N.E. Oxfordshire, on river Cherwell, drainage N. to S. Altitudes: river level, 300 o.d.; the Cross, 331; high town, 424. Average rainfall, 27.59 inches. Mean temperature, 41.5. Population, Municipal Borough, 12,967. Parliamentary division of Banbury, in W. Oxon., bounded E. by river Cherwell, S. by line from E. to W. through Finstock. Member of Parliament, 1890, A. Brassey, Esq., Heythrop Park, Chipping Norton. Railway Systems: G. W. R.; L. & N. W. R.; B. &

p. 3, l. 5, for “Adsum” read “Hadsham.” p. 9, l. 20, for “Holles” read “Gantham.” p. 31, l. 16, for “Clarenden” read “Clarendon.” p. 40, l. 22, “think it” may have been omitted. p. 45, l. 3, Fiennes means “left.” p. 48, l. 10, “or” of the original should read “of.” p. 51, l. 9, the second comma is misplaced in the original, and should follow Verny . p. 78, l. 28, for “Thos.” read “W.” In the Plans of the Battle, “Broke” should read “Brooke.”   Footnotes: [1] Subsequently the scene of a fight bet