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Title: The Civil War in Worcestershire, 1642-1646, and the Scotch invasion of 1651
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Willis Bund, J. W. (John William), 1843-1928
Subjects: Worcestershire (England) -- History, Military Great Britain -- History Civil War, 1642-1649 Great Britain -- History Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660
Publisher: Birmingham (West Midlands, England) : Midland Educational London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s. Worcester, Colonel Sandys, 300 horse and 1000 foot. In the north of the County the garrisons were: Bewilley, Sir Thomas Lyttelton.Hartlebury Castle, Colonel Sandys.Dudley Castle, Colonel Leveson. In the south of the County: Strensham, Sir William Russell. And although outside the County border, but forming part ofits military system : Sudeley, Lord Chandos.Tewkesbury, Sir William Vavassour. Madresfield does not seem to have become a regular garrisonuntil later. Webb says that Malvern was then a garrison of Masseys, butthis can hardly have been so, the Worcester garrison would nothave allowed a hostile post so near them, nor one so close ontheir line of communications with Herefordshire. The Parliament does not appear to have had any garrisonin the County, but outside, on the east, was Warwick, withBrydges as governor. It did for that part what Massey wasdoing at Gloucester. In the south and south-west Gloucester,with Massey, on the north-west, in Shropshire, Bridgnorth. * II., 306.
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CIVIL WAR, 1644. 115 In the early part of the year a new garrison was formedin the north at Edgbaston, later on another at StourtonCastle, near Stourbridge, and one at Hawkesley, betweenBromsgrove and Northfield. Neither party possessed any■field army for any hostilities, each had to rely upon troopsdrawn from the garrisons. Outside Worcestershire the Royalists had again occupiedReading. In January Rupert took Towcester, which enabledthe line of communications between Gloucester and Londonto be threatened. One great advantage Parliament gained early this year wasthe advance of the Scotch army into England. This, if it didnothing else, altered the state of things in the north, andindirectly affected the position of matters in the Midlands.Recruits were the great difficulty that the King was beginningto feel, and to find that all, and more than all, his present menwould be engaged in the north, was a serious matter. All thatneed be said here as to the war in the north is that theMarqu

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