Anno 1645.
[date Apr. 14] HIgh Archal siege raised.
[date 22] Col. Massey defeated at Ledbury.
[date 24] Belchingt. house sum∣moned and delivered
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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- 1663.
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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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••o the Parl.
[date] Col. Windebank sen∣tenced for delivering the same.
[date Ma. 3.] Shot to death at Oxf.
[date 7] K. march••d from Oxf.
[date 22] Oxf. (the first time) ••••sieged.
[date 23] Godst: house quitted.
[date 26] Evesham taken by the Parl.
[date 30] Leicester besieged by the King.
[date] Stormed and taken.
[date Ju. 1] Gaunt-house yielded
[date 2] A notable sally out of Oxf.
Gen. Fairf••x raised hi•• siege there.
[date 14] The fatall Battell of Naseby.
[date 18] Leicester regained by the Parl.
[date 27] Highworth surrend.
[date 28] Carlile (after 42. weeks siege) delivered to the Scots.
[date Jul. 4] Sco••ch Army came to Tamworth.
[date 10] Kings forces defeated at Langport.
[date] Pontfract Castle (after ••. moneths siege) deli∣vered to the Parl.
[date 23] Bridge-water surrend. to the Parl.
[date 25] Scarborough (after a long siege), yielded.
[date 30] Bath delivered.
[date Aug. 15.] Scotch army sate down before Heref.
[date 17] Sherburn castle taken by the Parl.
Montross defeated the Scotch army in Kilsieth field, near Glasc. in Sco.
[date 21] G. Fairfax sate down before Bristol.
[date 22] King at Belvoire castle
[date 27] L. keeper Littleton died▪
And the same evening the K. came to Oxford.
[date 30] He marched to Mor∣tonhenma••sh.
[date Se.] Scots raised their siege ••••om Heref.
[date 6] Parl. quarters beaten up at Tame. Captain Gardner slain.
[date 11] Bristoll surrend.
[date 13] Montross defeated at Phillip-haugh in Scotl.
[date 24] Rouston-heath battl.
[date Oc. 14] Basing-house taken by storm, and in it the no∣ble Marq. of Winchest.
[date 15] Kings forces defeated at Sherburn in Yorksh
[date No. 3] K. returned to Oxford.
[date 5] Bolton castle yielded.
[date 16] Beeston cast, the like.
[date De. 4] Latham-h. delivered.
[date 17] Hereford surprized.
[date Jan.] Wormeleight. h. burnt.
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[date 13] Personal Treaty deni∣ed by the Parl.
[date 19] Dartm. stormed and taken by the Parl.
[date Fe. 3.] Belvoir castle (after 3 moneths siege) delive∣red to the Parl.
Westchester the like.
[date 16] Torrington storm'd & taken by the Parl.
[date 25] Launceston quitted by the King.
[date 28, 29] Saltash & Lizard the like.
[date Mar. 3.] Mount-edge yielded.
Foy quitted by the K.
[date 1] L. Ber. Steward interr'd in Christ-Church Oxon.
[date 14] L. Hopton accepted of conditions for disban∣ding his army.
L. Astly defeated.