Battle of Whalley
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Yet another C17 coincidence
Battle of Marston Moor, Battle of Nantwich, Battle of Preston, Battle of Whalley, coincidence, Colonel Ralph Assheton, English Civil War, James Earl of Stanley, Lancashire, Long Parliament, Members of Parliament, memorial brass, Middleton Church, namesakes, Parliamentary army, Richard Neville, Richard of Warwick, self-denying ordinance, Thomas Fairfax, Vice Constable of EnglandThe English Civil War often looked like Round Two of the Wars of the Roses with, geographically, Yorkists morphing into Parliamentarians and Lancastrians becoming Royalists. One parliamentary commander was a Richard Neville and another bore the name of Ralph Assheton, as we shall show, descended from the Vice-Constable of the 1480s: Colonel Assheton, of Middleton,…
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