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 The laws god were broken down

the glory of our nation,

then Mr. Hamilton did command,

some says he was to blame,

Because he was not valiant

in battle for Gods name,

but whither guilt or ignorance,

God knoweth and himself;

For whither of the two it was,

my author doth not tell

The men who at the bridge did stand

did amunition lake

and no relief at all they got,

and so they did draw hack

The horsemen they did flee away

and left the foot behind;

the enemy did seize on them

for all the rest were gone,

When the enemy had won the bridge

the Westlandmen did flee

the Englishmen and Clavers both

did kill them grievouslie

And all along through Hamilton town

they did kill and did wound

Untill the streets with bodies dead

was cover’d in the town.

Some were dead and some were sick

and some were sorely wounded

they drove them east like unto sheep

before the dogs were hunted,

Then some were dead and some were sick

and some for quarters cryed

and many brave gallants blood,

upon the ground there lyed,

They took twelve hundred prisoners,

when fighting it was done:

and on the morn when it was day,

they gathered all right soon