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2/2 A royalist was then hanged & the Prince challenged to shoot him down.
A well-timed letter from the King urged his nephew to avoid 'spilling innocent blood' and a desire for 'good, happiness, and peaceable government'.
Upon surrender, Rupert treated the garrison with respect.

📅#OTD 1643, Prince Rupert storms #Birmingham.
Parliament claimed that Rupert burned 80 houses & put 'divers to the Sword'.
The royalists accepted one or two houses were burned, but insisted that Rupert ordered 'the quenching of the fire' after victory.
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📅#OTD 1645, Sir Marmaduke Langdale & his renowned Northern Horsemen defeat Parliamentarian cavalry at Melton Mowbray.
Langdale (known as 'The Ghost') was en-route to the relief of #Pontefract, where the Northerners' friends were under siege.
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▪️SYDENHAM POYNTZ NO:3
Aged 21, taken prisoner in Hungary by Turkish troops.
His possessions were taken, head shaved & he was sold as a slave to a Turkish cavalry officer called Bully Basha.
'My thoughts night and day was to runne away .. [but] my slavish habit would discry me'.

📅OTD 1642, Sir Charles Coote, Governor of #Dublin, defeats a force of Irish Catholic rebels at the Battle of Swords. He is renowned for having killed civilians at Wicklow.
The day prior, King Charles & the royal family had been forced to leave London amidst violent protests.

📅#OTD 1649, William Prynne is freed. He'd been arrested when the New Model Army forcibly excluded c.185 moderate MP's from Parliament.
He condemns 'the armed force and violence of a mutinous army, who have leavyed Warre against [Parliament]' & opposes any trial of the King.

📅#OTD 1644, Prince Rupert replaces the 71-year-old Earl of Forth & Brentford as Lord General of the royalist armies.
Despite being gouty, deaf and a hard drinker, Forth had fought bravely, being wounded at Gloucester, Newbury & Cheriton.
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📅#OTD 1645, Shelford Priory, Nottinghamshire.
Sydenham Poyntz & John Hutchinson take 30 minutes to storm the royalist house & burn it. They kill 160 defenders.
Royalists sniping from the church tower of St Peter & St Paul's are smoked out.
#WaroftheThreeKingdoms

@17thCenturyLady @quintonjournals @jdmccafferty @ARebelHand @PlymPrivateer @DrRJWarren @cheapsellotape This is Phineas Pett, Charles I's naval commissioner. At the King's request he & his son Peter built the biggest ship the navy had seen. HMS Sovereign of the Seas, launched 1637 (& 1637 tons) was the first 3-decker.
Phineas even made a pull along toy ship for young Charles II.

📅#OTD 1643, the Earl of Essex, commander of Parliament's armies, threatens to resign.
He insists that his rival, Sir William waller, isn't given an independent command.
It would take a personal visit from John Pym to smooth this over - and Waller remained subordinate to Essex.