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On the 25th of August, 1642, two days after the skirmish 
at LonglItchington, the particulars of which were detailed in 
my former notice, the King set up his standard at Nottingham. 
On the 28th of that month Prince Rupert, with a body of 
horse from Leicester, made an attack on Caldicott Hall, a 
stone mansion, strongly built, and not far from Nuneaton. 
We have on a monument in Caldicott church, a detailed 
account of the occurrence. The inscription runs thus:— 
“‘Here lieth the body of George Abbott, late of Caldecott, in 
Warwickshire, Esquire, whose eminent parts, virtues, and 
graces, drawn forth to life in his exemplary walking with 
(rod, his tenderness to all the members of Christ, who fre- 
quently fled to his charity in their wants, and counsel in 
cases of conscience. His exact observation of the Sabbath, 
which he vindicated by his pen, and on which, August 28th, 
1642, God honoured him in the memorable and unparalleled 
defence of this adjoining house, with eight men (besides his 
mother and her maids) against the furious and fierce assault 
of Prince Rupert and Maurice, with 18 troops of horse and 
dragoneers. His perspicuous paraphrases of the books of Job 
and Psalms, his judicious tracts of public affairs then emergent, 
his known integrity in public employments, rendered him 
one in a thousand for singular piety, wisdom, learning, 
cuainty, courage, and fidelity to his country, which he served 
in two Parliaments, the former and the present, whereof 
he died a member February 2nd. 1648, in the 44th year of 
his age. This monument was erected to his memory by his 
dear mother and execut:x, Johan Purefoy, the wife of 
Colonel William Purefoy, his beloved father-in-law, the 28th 
day of August, Anno Domini, 1649.” Colonel Purefoy was 
one of the chief of the Parliamentarian party in this county. 
No one would draw the inference from this inscription, that 
Caldecott hall was taken, which was however the fact. In 
Vicar’s Maynalia Dei Anglicani, or England’s Parliamentary 
(Chronicle, a somewhat ssarce work, which has been com- 
mented upon as ‘‘a curious medley of facts and furious party 
veo,’ a more detailed account of this attack is given, 
which is as follows :—‘About the middle of September, 1642, 
the Parliament was informed of the great outrages and inso- 
lences of the Cavaliers arraymen, in Warwickshire, Worces- 
tersh re, Gloucestershire, and Cheshire. But one passage 
anong the rest, being very remarkable and worthy of particular 
remembrance, may not be here omitted, which fell out in 
Warwickshire, and was this. The Cavaliers having notice, 
and thereupon informing Prince Rupert of a worthy gentle- 
