 A forlorn hope of 300 musketeers was deployed to the front, and two companies of Colonel Edward Harley's regiment were in reserve.A Parliamentarian engraving of the battle shows 11 pieces of artillery, in the intervals between the infantry regiments.They played little part in the battle; their first salvoes went high, and the Royalist and Parliamentarian infantry were subsequently too closely engaged for the guns to be used.