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Part of Lady Agatha's escort escaped and rode at full gallop to the Roaylist garrison at Sarisbury for help, a body of horse and dragoons left within the hour to attempt a rescue .
to be continued ...
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Lady in Distress ....
Lady Agatha Hippedsley-Cox (Royalist), while returning from a visit to her cousin in Longford Castle (to the south of Sarisbury) was intercepted by a body of Parliamentarian horse. Her coach was damaged in the skirmish and they have taken her in a cart to hand her over to the nearest Parliamentarian garrison.
Lady Agatha and her maid meet the garrison commander, they will be quartered in the main house, till a decision on their fate is made..
The horse leave using the cart to take some supplies to the other units of Parliamentarian army in quarters some miles away...
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What despicable rogues those Roundheads are . . . to attack women and carry them off to who knows what sort of fate.
True Englishmen (those who uphold the Crown) respect the gentler sex and do not war upon them.
-- Jeff
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