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#OnThisDay 4 May 1643 Royalist forces commanded by William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, stormed the town of #Rotherham after a skirmish at the town's bridge, defended by local Parliamentarians including 30 boys from the town's grammar school. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD

#OnThisDay 20 April 1643 Prince Rupert's engineers detonate the first ever explosive mine used in England to breach the defences and retake @LichfieldCath Close. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD

#OnThisDay 9 April 1644 Parliamentarian forces under Sir William Waller stormed Winchester. They captured the town but the Royalist garrison held out in the castle. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD

#OnThisDay 11 March 1645 at #Devizes in Wiltshire Parliamentary forces under Sir William Waller and Oliver Cromwell surprised a party of 400 Royalist Horse on their way to join Lord Goring; only thirty escaped. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD

#OnThisDay 18 February 1653 began the three day Battle of Portland, where the Commonwealth fleet under Generals-at-Sea Blake, Monck & Deane defeated the Dutch fleet under Admiral Tromp, restoring English naval supremacy in the English Channel. #17thCentury #OTD

#OnThisDay 6 February 1649, the House of Commons voted to abolish the House of Lords (funnily enough, they hadn't been getting on too well....) #17thCentury #OTD

#OnThisDay 27 December 1642 Parliamentary troops commanded by Sir William Waller took the town of Chichester. The following day, encouraged by Sir Arthur Hasilrige, some of the soldiers committed acts of iconoclasm in @ChiCathedral. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD

#OnThisDay 13 December 1643 in a surprise attack, Sir William Waller's Parliamentarian forces stormed Alton in Hampshire. The Royalist defenders conducted a last stand in the Church of St Lawrence, which still has scars of the fighting today. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD

What did Cromwell think of these laws? We asked Prof. John Morrill of @Cambridge_Uni (world expert on him) and he told us that Cromwell never expressed an opinion on it in his letters or speeches - so we don't know, although under the Protectorate the ban remained. (6/9)

The final ban came in June 1647, when Parliament passed an outright ban on Christmas, Easter and Whitsun festivities, services and celebrations - although they also introduced a monthly secular public holiday (like a modern bank holiday) instead... (4/9)