Now! Then! Source: Hotham, Sir J. Hotham's Letter Concerning the King's Coming to Hull (1807)

John Hotham. 1807. Sir J. Hotham’s Letter Concerning the King’s Coming to Hull. The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. 2, 1625-42. Ed. William Cobbett. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Browne et al.

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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

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