Entries for the tag ‘Fairfax, Ferdinando, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1584-1648) ’
English nobleman, politician and Civil War commander, father of Thomas Fairfax. 
- 23 January 1643: Thomas Fairfax, the Rider of the White Horse, captures Leeds from the Beast with the help of Psalm 68
- 21 May 1643: Thomas Fairfax takes two “true prisoners” at Wakefield, but is then surrounded by their comrades
- 1 November 1643: Sam Priestley of Soyland (22) saves a Royalist enemy from drowning in Hebden Water at the Battle of Heptonstall, and himself dies later of pneumonia
- 28 October 1648: A letter claims that Pontefract Castle under John Morris, its Royalist governor, has become a den of apolitical brigands
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