Thursday 4 April 2013

fortunes change yet again

Lots happening but few hard facts. Maurice has laid seige to Weymouth. Gloucester and Bristol seem to be in both Royalist and Parliamentary hands. The seige of oxford has started in earnest. Rumour is that the King emptied much gold from the coffers of Bristol just a day before Brereton arrived there!! York is still threatened by the roundhead armies. Byron is marching his army up and down hills to and from newcastle... there must be a song to be made about that