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Warwick Roads, upon Camp Hill. It is laid down in the 
Map of Birmingham, of 1863, and was on the site of, or 
near, where Trinity Church, Bordesley, now stands. The 
number of inhabitants in Birmingham at this period, were 
about 5000. Hutton computes the population at the 
Restoration, in 1660, to amount to 5,472. In 1700, the 
population was 15,000; and in 1730, between 23,000 and 
24,000. It would appear that in 1643, there was a con- 
siderable manufactory of Swords at Birmingham, with 
which the Parliamentarian Forces were supplied. 
The King’s forces, in this engagement, sustained a great 
loss in William, first Earl of Denbigh, who fell mortally 
wounded, and died a few days afterwards, as a warm 
adherent of the Royal cause his loss was felt the more, 
inasmuch as his Title, and possesions in this county 
descended to his son, Basil Fielding, second Earl of 
Denbigh, who, espousing the cause of the Parliament, 
held a high military command in the Midland Counties 
of which he was subsequently dispossessed, by “the self- 
denying Ordinance.” He afterwards seems to have dis- 
trusted the so called “ Commonwealth of England,” as a 
more absolute Government than a Monarchy, and gave in 
his adhesion to the Restoration. He died in 1675. 
In June, 1643, Tamworth Castle, which had been garri- 
soned for the King, surrendered to the forces of the 
Parliament. Some 45 years ago, the late Sir Samuel Rush 
Meyrick, of Goodrich Court, Herefordshire, shewed me, at 
his then residence, in Sloane Square, a Buff Doublet, which, 
he informed me, had come from Tamworth Castle. He also 
stated that such coats were very scarce. This Doublet may 
be seen in the Meyrick Collection of Armour at the South 
Kensington Museum. I have, in my own small collection, 
