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In November, 1643, Coughton House, near Alcester, was 
entered by some of the Parliamentarian forces from 
Warwick. In the January following, they quitted it, on 
hearing the King’s forces were approaching, having set fire 
to it in three places. 
On the 18th of December, 1643, Aston Hall, near 
Birmingham, the seat of Sir Thomas Holt, was at his 
request, garrisoned by Colonel Leveson with 40 Musketeers. 
On the 26th of that month, it was assaulted by 1,200 of the 
Parliamentarian troops, who took it on the 28th, having 
killed 12 of the garrison and taken the rest prisoners, with 
the loss however of 60 of their own men. 
On the 3rd of March, 1644, a party of troops from 
Warwick, beat up a party of the King’s forces at Adderbury, 
in Oxfordshire, and took 14 prisoners; but on being pursued 
by Sir William Compton, from Banbury, with about 100 
horse, he overtook the Parliamentarian troops, some of whom 
fled into Chadshunt Church, near Kineton, where twelve 
were slain and two taken prisoners. 
On the 7th of June, 1644, the Parliamentary forces, 
consisting of 400 foot and 300 horse, faced Compton House, 
drove the park, and killed all the deer, and defaced all the 
monuments in the church; oa the 9th of June, Compton 
House was taken. 
Another account states “that Major Bridges, with his 
forces from Warwickshire and Coventry, having lain before 
Compton House on Friday and Saturday last, on Sunday 
morning (June 9th) took it, and in it the Earl of Nor- 
thampton’s brother, Captain Clarke, Captain Bradwell, with 
about 12 officers more and 120 commen soldiers, 80 good 
horses, with all their arms and ammunition, and sent them 
to Warwick.” 
