No1, 1643 - 'Riding Home for Christmas' with Prince Rupert 🎶
🎄Wishing you a very Merry Christmas🎄
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📅 10 December 1643
News from the north is bleak - the Earl of Newcastle to Prince Rupert:
‘This Armey Is asaylde on all sides' ... the earl beseeches the prince to acquaint King Charles with these 'great truthes'.
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Parliamentarian pamphlet on Prince Rupert, 1644:
"Now Prince of Robbers, Duke of Plunderland, This Dogs great Master, hath receiv'd command To kill, burne, steale, Ravish, nay, any thing, And in the end to make himself a King."
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