The Seige of Worcester, 1642.

This is the account of the Seige of Worcester of 1642, as described by Valentine Green in his book 'The History and Antiquities of the City and Suburbs of Worcester'. He reports victory for the Roundheads, other sources disagree.

Page 269: "Prince Rupert, with his brother Prince Maurice, and a considerable body of troops, having joined Sir John Biron, on Friday the 23rd, with fifteen troops of horse, marched out of Worcester into a green meadow (Pitchcroft) on this side of the city, daring their adversaries to combat. The republican spirit was roused to indignation at this taunting display of heroism, and notwithstanding that, from the dispersion of their force on every side of town, and on the other side of the Severn, they were not justly enabled from the numbers they could immediately muster, to encounter them, yet Colonel Sandys and Colonel Austine determined to risk an engagement with them: a charge was forthwith made upon them with effect, and, being joined by others of their party, a very spirited action was supported through the whole of the afternoon. The Prince and his troopers, at length, perceiving a reinforcement of horse approaching to sustain the enemy, who, they conceived, came from the forces which the Earl of Essex was hourly expected to bring to Worcester, retreated into the city, pursued by the parliamentary army, where the fight was continued towards midnight; when, with his beaten troops, the Prince was obliged to abandon the town, and escaping over the bridge, took his route towards Herefordshire in great disorder."

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