Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…

The next Morning being willing to see the Field where they had fought, I went to Edghill, and found the Earl of Essex with the remaining part of his Army keeping the Ground, and the King's Army facing them upon the Hill a mile off; and about a Thousand dead Bodies in the Field between them, (and I suppose many were buried before): and neither of the Armies moving toward each other. The King's Army presently drew off towards Banbury, and so to Oxford. The Earl of Essex's Army went back to provide for the wounded, and refresh themselves at Warwick Castle, (the Lord Brook's House).

For my self I knew not what Course to take: To live at home I was uneasy; but especially now, when Soldiers on one side or other would be frequently among us, and we must be still at the Mercy of every furious Beast that would make a prey of us: I had neither Money nor Friends: I knew not who would receive me in any place of Safety; nor had I any thing to satisfy them for my Diet and Entertainment. Hereupon I was persuaded by one that was with me to go to Coventry, where one of my old Acquaintance was Minister, (Mr. Simon King, sometime School-master at Bridgenorth): So thither I went with a purpose to stay there till one side or other had got the Victory, and the War was ended, and then to return home again: For so wise in Matters of War was I, and all the Country besides, that we commonly supposed that a very few days or weeks by one other Battle, would end the Wars; and I believe that no small number of the Parliamentmen, had no more with than to think so to. There I stayed at Mr. King's a month, but the War was as far from being like to end as before.

For my self I knew not what Course to take: To live at home I was uneasie; but especially now, when Soldiers on one side or other would be frequently among us, and we must be still at the Mercy of every furious Beast that would make a prey of us: I had neither Money nor Friends: I knew not who would receive me in any place of Safety; nor had I any thing to satisfie them for my Diet and Entertainment. Hereupon I was perswaded by one that was with me to go to Coventry, where one of my old Acquaintance was Minister, (Mr. Simon King, sometime School-master at Bridgenorth): So thither I went with a purpose to stay there till one side or other had got the Victory, and the War was ended, and then to return home again: For so wise in Matters of War was I, and all the Country besides, that we commonly supposed that a very few days or weeks by one other Battel, would end the Wars; and I believe that no small number of the Parliamentmen, had no more with than to think so to. There I stayed at Mr. King's a month, but the War was as far from being like to end as before.