Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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Throughout January, 1647, the interest of both kingdoms was centred on Newcastle, and the arrival there of the money which was to take both Charles and the town out of the hands of the Scots. On December 16th, thirty-six carts containing £200,000 had set out under convoy from London. On January 3rd, the money reached York, ‘the waies being very bad, the monies overturned, the boxes dirty.’ In spite of bad roads, ‘H. M .’ writes from York on January 4th, ‘we got well to York with all the good gold and silver yesterday, after many a lang dayes march; yet our foot are too blithe and merry, and leap in the Churchyard after all their marching so far in the durt.’

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Abbreviations:

• ER: East Riding
• GM: Greater Manchester
• NR: North Riding
• NY: North Yorkshire
• SY: South Yorkshire
• WR: West Riding
• WY: West Yorkshire

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Comment

Here is the source for the 36 carts (Rushworth 1701). I suspect that one of the respective references for the next two sentences will provide a better quote than the one above: Moderate Intelligencer, No. 97, for January 17-24, 1647, Mercurius Diutinus, No. 7, for January 6-13, 1647. So if you’ve got EEBO/ProQuest, please get in touch.

To give an impression of the logistical and security challenge, £200k was about £35m in January 2023.

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Throughout January, 1647, the interest of both kingdoms was centred on Newcastle, and the arrival there of the money which was to take both Charles and the town out of the hands of the Scots. On December 16th, thirty-six carts containing £200,000 had set out under convoy from London. On January 3rd, the money reached York, ‘the waies being very bad, the monies overturned, the boxes dirty.’ In spite of bad roads, ‘H. M .’ writes from York on January 4th, ‘we got well to York with all the good gold and silver yesterday, after many a lang dayes march; yet our foot are too blithe and merry, and leap in the Churchyard after all their marching so far in the durt.’

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