six in the morning
They lost one of their colonels , and several officers in the action ; and I heard our men say , they behaved themselves as well as any forces the Parliament had . The Parliament cried victory here too , as they always did ; and indeed where the foot were concerned they had some advantage ; but our horse defeated them evidently . The king drew up his army in battalia , in person , and faced them all the next day , inviting them to renew the fight ; but they had no stomach to come on again . It was a kind of a hedge fight , for neither army was drawn out in the field ; if it had , ` twould never have held from six in the morning to ten at night . But they fought for advantages ; sometimes one side had the better , sometimes another . They fought twice through the town , in at one end , and out at the other ; and in the hedges and lanes , with exceeding fury . The king lost the most men , his foot having suffered for want of the succour of their horse , who on two several occasions could not come at them .