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Yorkshire gentry listing their 'grievances'.
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Chester with about 2,400 cavalry, but on 15 October a Parliamentarian army intercepted and dispersed their forces at
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but claimed he was too poor to attend Charles' coronation. He died in August 1661 at Holme and was buried in
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in 1612 and inherited his father's estates in 1617. His sister-in-law Katherine was the first wife of
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