Yorkshire Almanac 2025

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That if Sir John Hotham could have been assured of the King and Queen’s pardon for what he had done or said in Parliament, and received into their grace and favour, he might have been made a faithful and serviceable person to them; the denying of which (or at least answering it coldly) was a great motive to his undertaking that employment at Hull.
After that Sir John had undertaken that employment for Hull he had some occasion that detained him at London; so that upon notice of the Lord of New-Castle being gone thither, young Hotham was sent down to shew to the townsmen his father’s authority from Parliament, and to draw forces into the town.
As soon as young Hotham came into the country he immediately drew into the town of Hull three or four hundred of the trained bands, and the day that he entered with them into the town, there was the greatest sight that ever had been seen or heard of, the water flowing into the market place, so that no man could pass there; which was taken for a strange omen, and proved not only fatal to the Father and Son, but even to the Kingdom.

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Date from A.M.W. Stirling (Stirling 1918). God, the plumber for all mankind.

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Date from A.M.W. Stirling (Stirling 1918). God, the plumber for all mankind.

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23 April 1642: Having promised parliament to safeguard for it Hull’s crucial arsenal, John Hotham tells it how today he shut the gates of Hull to Charles I

28 December 1642: Four months into the Civil War, the Puritan John Shawe of Rotherham preaches iconoclasm at St. Mary’s, Beverley

3 July 1643: The Royalists take Bradford after the Second Siege, but are warned off massacring the inhabitants by a ghost

11 October 1643: Reinforced, Ferdinando Fairfax’s Parliamentary forces break the will of the Royalist besiegers of Hull

23 January 1643: Thomas Fairfax, the Rider of the White Horse, captures Leeds from the Beast with the help of Psalm 68

4 May 1643: The Royalists take Rotherham and begin a search for the preacher John Shawe

15 October 1645: Unable to distinguish Cavaliers from Roundheads, Lord Digby’s victorious Royalist army flees the battlefield at Sherburn in Elmet and is destroyed

2 July 1644: Henry Slingsby of the Royalist York garrison recounts Prince Rupert’s defeat at Marston Moor today, which ends Charles I’s hopes in the north

21 May 1643: Thomas Fairfax takes two “true prisoners” at Wakefield, but is then surrounded by their comrades

16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday, Parliament and the Scots breach York’s walls and destroy monastic records with a mine next to St Mary’s Tower

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A Parliamentary report on the following day:

On Monday morning, some of our soldiers betwixt nine and ten a clock, approaching towards the place where the tower stood, heard in the rubbish a very doleful cry, some calling, Help, help; others Water, water. Their lamentable complaints moved our men to resolve their relief: so they digged one out dead in the rubbish and brought two alive; but from the town, such fierce opposition was made by the merciless enemy against our soldiers while they were labouring to save their friends’ lives, that they were compelled to leave many poor distressed ones dying in the dust. Upon Wednesday or Thursday we obtained an hour’s time to bury our dead (Ashe 1644).

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