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Gesta Britannorum, or, A brief chronologie of the actions and exploits, battails, sieges, conflicts, and other signal and remarkable passages which have happened in these His Majesties dominions from the year of Christ 1600, untill the present, 1663, being the space of 62 complete years / collected by Geo. Wharton.

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Gesta Britannorum, or, A brief chronologie of the actions and exploits, battails, sieges, conflicts, and other signal and remarkable passages which have happened in these His Majesties dominions from the year of Christ 1600, untill the present, 1663, being the space of 62 complete years / collected by Geo. Wharton.
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Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.
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London :: Printed by J.G. for the Company of Stationers,
1663.
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Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.
Great Britain -- History -- Chronology.
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"Gesta Britannorum, or, A brief chronologie of the actions and exploits, battails, sieges, conflicts, and other signal and remarkable passages which have happened in these His Majesties dominions from the year of Christ 1600, untill the present, 1663, being the space of 62 complete years / collected by Geo. Wharton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65581.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.

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Anno 1642.

[date Apr. 23.] SIr John Hotham de∣nyed the K. entrance into Hull, and was therefore proclaimed a Traytor.

[date 25] Justified by the Par∣liament.

[date July 12.] E. of Ess••x voted Ge∣neral.

[date 15] King at Beverly, and Hull besieged.

[date Au 1.] E. Ess••x divided his men into Regiments.

[date Au. 3.] The Parliam. declared themselves Necessitated to take up Arms.

[date 22] King set up his Stan∣dard at Nottingham.

[date Se. 23] Wickfield fight.

[date Oc. 23] Edge-hill battel.

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[date 27] King came to Oxf.

[date Nov. 12, 13] Brainford fights, after which the K. with his army marched to Read∣ing, and thence to Oxf.

[date De. 5.] Marlborough taken for the King.

[date 13] Winchester delivered to the Parliament.

[date —] Chichester the like.

[date Jan. 13.] L. Aubigney interred at Oxford.

[date 19] Bodmin fight, and Liscard taken by Sir Ralph Hopton.

[date 21] Belvoire Castle sur∣prized by the truly ho∣nourable and valiant Col. Gervas Holles. Saltash taken for the K.

Leeds stormed and taken by the Parliam.

[date Feb.] Yarum fight.

[date 2] Cyrencester taken by the Kings forces.

[date 12, 13] Salisbury plundered.

[date 22] Queen landed at Burlington Key.

[date mar. 2] L. Brook slain at Litchf.

[date 5] Queen marched from Burlingt. to Norburton

[date 6] To Malton.

[date 7] To York.

[date 16] Capuchins (belonging to Sommerset-house shipped for France by order of Parl.

[date 18, 19] The Battel on Hop¦ton heath, wherein the most noble and valiant Spencer, then Earl of Northampton, was un∣fortunately slain.

[date 21] Malmsbury surrendred to the Parliament.

[date 23] Granth. taken for the K.

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