August 22, 1642
August 22, 1642
The story as it unfolds:

SYDNEY, called HOME, forwards a STORY. EDMUND, riding the ring in Cambridge, learns who makes the best troops, and prepares for a ride East.

Elsewhere about the Kingdom: Today Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, declaring war on the Parliament.

From the section: Letters

Dear Paige,

Thank you for the letter, which discovered me with Col Hampden’s regt near Southam, west of Northampton. I will make all haste to leave but due to several commitments can’t until tomorrow; expect me in London on the 24th or 25th. In the meantime, please render following (account of engagement near here) into story for Anglia Rediviva; four to five paragraphs. You can call it I think “Supper Spoiled” or something like that.

— Arriving on afternoon of Aug 20, finds the gates shut against him, the city council having elected to obey the declarations of Parliament;

— Several with Charles rode near the walls of Coventry, to harangue the defenders with “traitor,” “roundhead dogs” and the like; imprecations answered with a cannonade, which killed two or three horses and injured one of King’s men (could not obtain name; said to be a “gentleman of note”);

— King compelled by this indignity to return Stonely, and is now en route Nottingham; his rear guarded by Earl of Northampton, with appx 800 horse, half as much foot;

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From the section: Histories

We hath 19 from Holyfen; 11 from Huntingdon; 11 from Cambridge; 11 from St Ives; with  Uncle, our Captain (and from here foreward Captain Cromwell); Cuthbert Baildon and Joseph Waterhouse, Coronets; John Disbrowe, Quartermaster; and Hathaway, our Chaplain. We are well-armed, with that from the magazine at Cambridge, in back-and-breasts, and lobster-pots; and buff-coats of boiled leather; and to each trooper two pistols, and a sword. Appx half of those raised brought their own mounts; the remainder we have purchased; if more needed then it may be necessary to requisition from malignants and other ill-affected throughout the countryside.

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