Sir John being passed without the trench, meets Captain Forbes with some prisoners, and the good news of the enemy’s retreat.  He sends him directly to the king, who was by this time at the head of his army, in full battalia, ready to follow his vanguard, expecting a hot day’s work of it.  Sir John sends messenger after messenger to the king, entreating him to give him orders to advance; but the king would not suffer him, for he was ever upon his guard, and would not venture a surprise; so the army continued on this side the Lech all day and the next night.  In the morning the king sent for me, and ordered me to draw out 300 horse, and a colonel with 600 horse, and a colonel with 800 dragoons, and ordered us to enter the wood by three ways, but so as to be able to relieve one another; and then ordered Sir John Hepburn with his brigade to advance to the edge of the wood to secure our retreat, and at the same time commanded another brigade of foot to pass the bridge, if need were, to second Sir John Hepburn, so warily did this prudent general proceed.

We advanced with our horse into the Bavarian camp, which we found forsaken.  The plunder of it was inconsiderable, for the exceeding caution the king had used gave them time to carry off all their baggage.  We followed them three or four miles, and returned to our camp.

I confess I was most diverted that day with viewing the works which Tilly had cast up, and must own again that had he not been taken off we had met with as desperate a piece of work as ever was attempted.  The next day the rest of the cavalry came up to us, commanded by Gustavus Horn, and the king and the whole army followed.  We advanced through the heart of Bavaria, took Rain at the first summons, and several other small towns, and sat down before Augsburg.

Augsburg, though a Protestant city, had a Popish Bavarian garrison in it of above 5000 men, commanded by a Fugger, a great family in Bavaria.  The governor had posted several little parties as out-scouts at the distance of two miles and a half or three miles from the town.  The king, at his coming up to this town, sends me with my little troop and three companies of dragoons to beat in these out-scouts.  The first party I lighted on was not above sixteen men, who had made a small barricado across the road, and stood resolutely upon their guard.  I commanded the dragoons to alight and open the barricado, which, while they resolutely performed, the sixteen men gave them two volleys of their muskets, and through the enclosures made their retreat to a turnpike about a quarter of a mile farther.  We passed their first traverse, and coming up to the turnpike, I found it defended by 200 musketeers.  I prepared to attack them, sending word to the king how strong the enemy was, and desired some foot to be sent me.  My dragoons fell on, and though the enemy made a very hot fire, had beat them from this post before 200 foot, which the king had sent me, had