Entries for the tag ‘Slingsby, Henry (1602-58)’
1st Baronet, landowner, politician and soldier, MP at various times 1625-42, supported the Royalist cause, executed for conspiring to restore Charles II. 
- 3 January 1638: On the eve of the civil war, Henry Slingsby witnesses Royalist cavalry exercising near Wetherby
- 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
- 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
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