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Extracts Concerning the Civil War from Marrat’s History of Lincolnshire.
Seventeenth
Century Civil War
Vol. III. closes with 38
un-numbered pages of Additions and Corrections. They include the following two
entries.
1. Donington
The parliamentary army was beat by
the royalists under Colonel Cavendish, at Donington in the
2. To the right honorable the Lords and
Edward Ashwell, and lost his life by them . L.
10
Anthony Ross and lost his life . . . . 12
Thomas Pell . . . . . . . . 240
Robert Garner . . . . . . . 100
George Metcalf . . . . . . . 50
Thomas Jephery . . . . . . . 100
Henry Hunningham . . . . . . 50
Arthur Hunningham . . . . . . 30
Thomas Young . . . . . . . 53
John Plummer . . . . . . . 20
Henry Aswell . . . . . . . 40
George Harryman . . . . . . 10
Samuel Jackson . . . . . . . 80
Richard Ancall . . . . . . . 15
Sir W. Brownlowe . . . . . . 50
Walter Grymes . . . . . . . 40
Hugh Turva . . . . . . . . 8
William Chareylic . . . . . . 10
William Carter . . . . . . . 20
Thomas Turnor . . . . . . . 7
Danl. Rydall . . . . . . . . 12
John Bolland . . . . . . . . 60
John Newham . . . . . . . 7
Sir R. Carr . . . . . . . . 50
Peter Rogar . . . . . . . . 50
William Thompson . . . . . . 5
Robert Herris . . . . . . . 10
Thomas Oresby . . . . . . . 20
Thomas Thomson . . . . . . 6
Francis Richardson . . . . . . 6
Henry Hump . . . . . . . . 7
Edward Cawood . . . . . . . 15
Edward Ancell . . . . . . . 5
Edward Reade . . . . . . . 6
Robert Padley . . . . . . . 7
John Parret . . . . . . . . 20
William Bayle . . . . . . . 7
Richard Binkett . . . . . . . 6
Richard Philpot . . . . . . . 7
Robert Johnson . . . . . . . 2
John Marsh . . . . . . . . 5
William Netherhog . . . . . . 5
Thomas Money . . . . . . . 2
Joel, Elwood . . . . . . . . 1
Robert Johnson . . . . . . . 2
Thomas Jephrey Jnr. . . . . . . 2
Richard Barnaby . . . . . . . 10
Obed Cust . . . . . . . . 4
Total loss. L 1396. [sic]
Signed Thomas Pell
Edward
Cawood
Obed
Cust
Henry
Hump
Footnote.
1. ^ This might be thought to be a reference to Geoffrey the Baker’s Chronicon Angliae temporibus but he was writing in the fourteenth century.
The career of George Baker (1781–1851) (DNB George Baker), known as a county historian of Northamptonshire, had barely begun when Marrat’s book appeared.
Sir Richard Baker (c. 1568-1645) is the most likely candidate. He published his Chronicle of the Kings of England in 1643 (Chambers Baker 7.). The title page of its second edition (1653) appears here. Sir Richard’s work is commonly regarded as unreliable. This is not surprising as it was written in prison, so his access to source material will have been restricted. However, in works of this kind, the information about the writer’s own time is frequently more reliable than that which was from the writer’s point of view, history.