The Great Civil War in Lancashire, 1642-1651

afterwards arms army Ashhurst attack August battle besiegers Birch Blackburn Blackburn Hundred Bolton Bradshaw Bridge Broxap Captain capture Castle cavalry Charles Cheshire Chester Chetham Church Civil Colonel Assheton command Cromwell Cromwell's defeat defence Derby's Discourse Earl of Derby enemy England fighting foot forces Fylde garrison Girlington Hall Hist Hoghton Isle joined July King King's Lanca Lancashire troops Lancaster Lane Lathom House leaders letter Lilburne Liverpool Lonsdale Hundred Lord Strange Manchester Meldrum miles Molyneux Moore Newcastle Parlia Parliament Parliamentarian Parliamentarian troops party petition plundering Presbyterians Preston Prince Rupert prisoners probably quarter Radcliffe raised regiment retreat Ribble Rigby Rosworm royalists Salford Scots Seacome sent shire Shuttleworth side siege of Lathom Sir John Sir Thomas Fairfax Sir William Brereton skirmish soldiers Stanley Strange's summoned surrender Thurland Thurland Castle Tower town troops of horse Tyldesley Valley of Achor victory Warrington Whalley Wigan Yorkshire