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and liberty; and being told that it was this Richard 
Shuckburgh, he was ordered to be called to him, and was 
by him very graciously received, upon which he went 
immediately home, armed all his tenants, and the next 
day attended him on the field, where he was knighted, 
and was present at the Battle of Kdgehill. After the taking 
of Banbury Castle, and his Majesty’s retreat from those 
parts, he went to his own seat and fortified himself on the 
top of Shuckburg Hill, where, being attacked by some of 
the Parliamentary forces, he defended himself till he fell 
with most of his tenants about him, but being taken up 
and life perceived in him, he was carried away prisoner 
to Kenilworth Castle, where he lay a considerable time, 
and was forced to purchase his liberty at a dear rate.” 
There is in the Church of Upper Shuckburgh, a monu- 
mental bust of this Warwickshire worthy and staunch 
Royalist, representing him, not unlike the portraits of 
Charles I., with a moustache and piked beard, according 
to the fashion which prevailed. Next to the monumental 
bust of the greatest of the Warwickshire worthies, whose 
birthday is this day held in commemoration, this bust of 
Sir Richard Shuckburgh, in the Church of Upper Shuck- 
burgh, is of all the monumental busts in the Warwickshire 
Churches, and they are not few, the most interesting. On 
the eve of the memorable 28rd of Oct., 1642, the main 
body of the King’s army lay encamped on the southern 
side of the Cherwell, between Edgcot and Cropredy. 
Prince Rupert, who commanded the rear, had his quarters 
at Wormleighton. The King had left Shrewsbury on the 
12th of October. The Earl of Essex, who commanded 
the Parliamentary army. marched on the 14th of October 
from Worcester, with his forces, to meet those of the 
King. On the eve of the 23rd of Oct. the Earl of Essex, 
with the main body of his forces, reached Kineton, in the 
vale at the foot of the Edgehills. Prince Rupert had 
stationed picquets on the Burton Dassett Hills, and by 
these the fires. of the Parliament’s picquets were seen in 
the vale near Kineton. Prince Rupert immediately sent to 
inform the King, whose army was thereupon ordered to 
rendezvous on Edgehill. This was about three on the 
morning of Sunday, the 23rd of October. The main 
body of the King’s army crossed the Cherwell at Cropredy 
Bridge, taking the road through Mollington and Warming- 
ton to Edgehill. Some of Prince Rupert’s horse from 
Tarmington reached Bdgehill before eight o'clock in tha, 
