Siege of Lowestoft
The Siege of Lowestoft was a brief Parliamentarian operation in March 1643 during the First English Civil War, when Oliver Cromwell suppressed a small Royalist rising that had secured the port of Lowestoft in Suffolk. In what was one of the first major actions of Cromwell's Regiment of Horse,[1] the Eastern Association forces seized arms and took the local gentry prisoner to Cambridge.[2] Unlike much of Suffolk Lowestoft was sympathetic to the royalists partly due to her commercial rivalry with the Parliamentarian Great Yarmouth.[3] It was the only battle in the Civil War within the otherwise solidly Parliamentarian Suffolk.[4] Prisoners taken by Cromwell included the courtiers John Pettus[5] and Thomas Knyvett.
References
[edit]- ^ Firth 1899, p. 25.
- ^ Wedgwood 1970, p. 171.
- ^ Laughton, John Knox (1885). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 332–333.
- ^ A Brief History of Suffolk
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 45. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Sources
[edit]- Firth, Charles Harding (1899). "The Raising of the Ironsides". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. New Series. 13. Cambridge University Press: 17–73. doi:10.2307/3678126. JSTOR 3678126.
- Wedgwood, C.V. (1970). The King's War: 1641-1647. London: Fontana.
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