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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,
