A battle in 1644 in which the Parliamentarians under the earl of Manchester defeated the Royalists under Prince Rupert. Synonym:battle of Marston Moor.
... gathered persistently after service on the village green for their dancing, and their leaping, and their archery. Long habit cannot be transformed in a day by an Edict of Council, and amidst army manifestoes and battles of Marston Moor, and a king dethroned and imprisoned, old English life in Bedfordshire preserved its familiar features. These Sunday sports had been a special delight to Bunyan, and it is to them which he refers in the following passage, when speaking of his persistent wickedness. On his marriage he became ... — Bunyan • James Anthony Froude
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