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📆#OTD 1643, Parliament orders that Lambeth Palace & the Bishop of London's house near St. Paul's be used as prisons.
The newly appointed keepers of both are allowed up to 20 shillings for every common prisoner, 40 for knights & 5 Marks for any of a higher status.

📆#OTD 1644, #London.
The Commons & Lords attend a mandatory church service.
Preachers 'exhort them to ask pardon of God for not having supported heartily the advantages and aims of parliament' & swear to do so in future.
The aim: to unify them & pass the Self-Denying Ordinance.

📅#OTD 1651, #Barbados.
Commonwealth troops attack a fort at Jamestown, spiking guns & taking prisoners.
They are part of a fleet of 7 ships (total 860 men) attempting to reduce royalist Barbados, which holds fast despite Charles II's defeat at Worcester the previous month.

📅#OTD 1643, #London.
The rivalry of Parliament's Lord General, the Earl of Essex, and Sir William Waller culminates in Waller's submission.
Present during the Common's debate, Waller declares he 'ever hath been, is, and will be ready to receive and obey [Essex's] commands'

⚔️#OTD 1645, Battle of Rowton Moor, #Cheshire.
Both sides fire 'in the faces of one another, hacking and slashing ... neither party gained or lost a foot of ground, as if everyone were resolved there to breathe their last'.
Sir Marmaduke Langdale's royalists are defeated.

📅#OTD 1643, Parliament's Lord General, the Earl of Essex, writes a frank letter.
3000 soldiers of his army are sick, through 'Want of pay, ill Clothing, and all other Miseries which attend an unpaid, sickly Army'.
He calls for an enquiry into Parliament's loss of the West .. 1/2

⚔️#OTD 1643, Battle of Lansdown Hill, #Somerset.
Ralph Hopton's royalists fight their way up the 150 foot hill.
Overnight, the parliamentarians withdraw, but Hopton is then blinded by an accidental gunpowder explosion - 'hardly so much life as not to be numbered with the dead'.

Prior to Cropredy Bridge, Lord General Essex disobeyed orders & marched west, leaving William Waller to battle the King.
Essex was warned that Parliament 'do expect that such Directions ... be observed' & that 'Public Affairs had been in a better Condition' if they had been. https://t.co/DL7kQMCz1h

📅#OTD 1648, royalist Marmaduke Langdale takes #Berwick with 120 horse.
The Mayor had the drawbridge raised, but let it down upon sight of Langdale's commission from the Prince of Wales.
Next day, royalists take #Carlisle, offering the Scottish army a route into England

📅#OTD 1644, Sir Thomas Fairfax takes #Selby, #Yorkshire.
He captures the royalist commander, John Belasis & 2000 of his men.
Fairfax describes how this 'Blow hath made us Masters of the Field in Yorkeshire' but says there is 'not Paper enough in the Town to Write in a Sheet ...