midnight
This was unhappy counsel , because late given . Had we marched northward at first , we had done it ; but thus it was . Now we marched with a triumphing enemy at our heels , and at Naseby their advanced parties attacked our rear . The king , upon this , alters his resolution again , and resolves to fight , and at midnight calls us up at Harborough to come to a council of war . Fate and the king 's opinion determined the council of war ; and 't was resolved to fight . Accordingly the van , in which was Prince Rupert 's brigade of horse , of which my regiment was a part , counter-marched early in the morning . By five o'clock in the morning , the whole army , in order of battle , began to descry the enemy from the rising grounds , about a mile from Naseby , and moved towards them .