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had the Lieutenant-General performed his duty, in all pro- 

 bality the greatest part of the principal rebels in Yorkshire 

 would that day have been taken in their own trap, and their 

 further mischief prevented. My Lord, the next morning, 

 instead of storming the town (as he had intended), entered 

 without interruption, and there stayed some few days to 

 refresh his army, and order that part of the country. 



In December 1642, my Lord thought it fit to march to 

 Pomfret 1 , and to quarter his army in that part of the country 

 which was betwixt Cawood and some garrisons of the enemy, 

 in the west part of Yorkshire, viz. Halifax, Bradford, Leeds, 

 Wakefield, &c, where he remained some time to recruit and 

 enlarge his army, which was much lessened by erecting of 

 garrisons, and to keep those parts in order and obedience to 

 his Majesty 2 . And after he had thus ordered his affairs, he 

 was enabled to give protection to those parts of the country 

 that were most willing to embrace it, and quartered his army 

 for a time in such places which he had reduced. Tadcaster, 

 which stood upon a pass, he made a garrison, or rather a strong 

 quarter, and put also a garrison into Pomfret Castle, not 

 above eight miles distant from Tadcaster, which commanded 

 that town, and a great part of the country. 



During the time thac his army remained at Pomfret, my 

 Lord settled a garrison at Newark in Nottinghamshire, standing 

 upon the river Trent, a very considerable pass, which kept 

 the greatest part of Nottinghamshire, and part of Lincoln- 

 shire, in obedience 3 ; and after that he returned, in the 

 beginning of January 1642, back to York, with an intention 

 to supply himself with some ammunition, which he had 



spent in a manner all our whole store of bullet, match, and powder, I advised with the 

 commanders, and by general consent I was thought fit to rise with our forces and march 

 to Cawood and Selby, to secure those places, and there receive supplies of ammunition 

 and men ; which was accordingly done : and now I am at Selby with part of the army, 

 and the rest with Captain Hotham at Cawood.' — Letter of Lord Fairfax to the Speaker, 

 December 10, 1642, Rushworth, III, ii, 92. 



1 Pontefract. 



2 The Duchess does not mention an important episode in the Yorkshire civil war 

 which took place during this halt at Pomfret. Sir William Savile was detached by the 

 Earl of Newcastle to subdue the manufacturing towns of the West Riding.-* Leeds 

 and Wakefield submitted without fighting, and Sir William attacked Bradford on De- 

 cember 18, 1642. The men of Halifax came to the aid of the men of Bradford, and 

 the royalists were beaten off with considerable loss. Sir Thomas Fairfax, with four 

 or five hundred men, made his way to Bradford a few days later, and took command 

 of the local levies. With these forces he attacked Sir William Savile at Leeds on' January 

 23, 1643, and captured the town and about 500 prisoners. 



3 The garrisoning of Newark took place about Christmas 1642, under Sir John Hen- 

 derson. Newcastle returned to York on January 27, 1643 — Markham's Fairfax, p. 91. 



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