Civil War Tract
- Reference No:
- L CWT/41
- Dates:
- 3 Feb 1642-14 Oct 1643
- Description:
Includes various tracts relating to the Civil War:
1) The proceedings in the late treaty of peace together with severall letters of His Majesty to the Queen, and of Prince Rupert to the Earle of Northampton, which were intercepted and brought to the Parliament with a declarationof the Lords and Commons upon those proceedings and letters.
2) Special passeages and certain information from severall places, collected for the use of all that desired to be truly informed.
3) A letter from the Right Honourable Ferdinando Lord Fairfax, to His Excellency Robert Earle of Essex relating his late prosperous successe against the popish army in the North, his expelling them from their workes, and forcing them to raise their seige from before the Towne of Hull.
4) A continuation of certain speciall and remarkable passages informed to both Houses of Parliament and otherwise from diverse parts of the Kindome from Thursday the 6 of May till Thursday the 11 of May.
5) A true and exact relation of the great victories obtained by the Earl of Manchester, and the Lord Fairfax against The Earl of Newcastles army in the North.
6) The Queens proceedings in Yorkshire.
7) Two letters the one being intercepted by the Parliament Forces, which was sent from Sir Hugh Chomley to captain Gotherick, imployed in the Parliaments service advising him to quit Wrestle-Castle or else to secure Captain Carter and to make himself master of it, and keep it for His Majesties service.
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Access Conditions:
- Access will be granted to any accredited reader
- Repository:
- Hull City Archives
- Collection:
- Civil War Tracts