The Greencoats of Buckinghamshire, commanded by Colonel John Hampden of “Ship-Money” fame, routed a body of Cavalier horse two days ago on Dunsmore Heath, near Coventry.

Marching toward Coventry, the 400 musketeers and 600 pikemen of the regiment raised from Hampden’s tenants in the Aylesbury-Wendover-Tring area, encountered several troops of horse commanded by Lord Wilmot, the King’s commissary-general.

The Greencoats fired a cannon into the Royalists, which plowed a swath of destruction among the troopers and caused considerable fright among the horses. With “wonderful courage and shouts of joy” the regiment, Col. Hampden at their head, advanced; the Royalists turned and galloped north.

The troops of Parliament suffered no losses, other than one solider who fired a pistol into his boot.

Coventry on August 20 closed its gates against King Charles, who claimed a desire to “sup” there among such persons of “honor and quality” who supported his cause. Two days later the monarch raised his standard at Nottingham’s Castle Hill. Since then, amid considerable difficulties in drawing men to his cause, he submitted an offer of peace to Parliament which was promptly rejected.

The King’s army, said to contain between 800 and 1000 horse under the command of his nephew Rupert, Prince of the Rhine, and slightly more foot, is said to be marching in the direction of Leicester.