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Title: The history and antiquities, ancient and modern, of the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks
Year: 1816 (1810s)
Authors: Man, John, of Reading, Eng
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Publisher: Reading : Printed by Snare and Man
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a captain;and we were also informed of some who came from Caversham, that divers-laywounded there, so that we may justly conceive, they lost at least thirtyef their men. A\ e lost but three in all; one of which was a soldier of mine,Thomas Ilyett, a fishmongers man, who was shot through the body with apistol shot, as he was coming from his quarters, who was forced to make useof the cavaliers language, and cry out, where are these round headed rogues;but they pursued him, and struck him through the hat with a pole-axe. Essex determined to pursue his advantage, by laying siege to Reading,as soon as the season of the vcar would admit of his takinc: the field.—Accordingly, on the fifteenth of April, he marched from Windsor with anarmy consisting of sixteen thousand foot and three hundred horse, and reachedHenley the same night, from whence he pursued his march the next day, byBinfield-heath, towards Reading. The fortifications which surrounded the n.2 0AeSiege of Reading Earl of Essex.
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