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others I am indebted to that excellent work, “ Beasley’s 
History of Banbury,” which contains a mass of information 
relating to the Civil Wars of the incidents which took 
place in the country round about Banbury. 
A letter from Northampton, dated the 31st March, 1645, 
says :— 
“Yesterday being the Lords day Lieut. General 
Cromwell being at this town of Northampton, with a good 
body of horse and foot, by the advice of his Council of War 
marched from thence to Rugby in Warwickshire where they 
intend to quarter that night about 16 miles march and 
after their muster to march towards Coventry, about eight or 
ten miles farther, and there to stay for the present, to attend 
the motions of the enemy for the securing those parts.” 
A few days before the Battle of Naseby, on the King’s 
march from Daventry northwards, a party of his Life 
Guards were quartered at Willoughby, about five miles 
from Daventry. 
The decisive Battle of Naseby was fought on the 14th 
of June, 1645. After this we have few notices of occur- 
ances in Warwickshire, except of the Scotch Army. On 
the 4th of July, 1645, the Scots army came to Tamworth, 
on the 5th to Birmingham, on the 7th to Alcester. On the 
9th of September the Scots had headquarters at Charlecote, 
on the 10th that army marched through Warwick to Stone- 
ley, and the next day to Nuneaton. 
Respecting the other movements about this time of the 
Scottish army, I must refer you to Clarendon’s History of 
the Great Rebellion. 
On the 7th of January, 1646, Wormleighton House, on 
the eastern borders of this county, one of the seats of the 
Compton family, was purposely burnt by the Royalist 
