. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . ed by conflicts for the possession of the English crown. PerkinWarbeck, after failing to effect much in Ireland, landed upon the coast ofCornwall, where his chief sympathisers were, and advanced eastward to conquerEngland. He seized upon Taunton, but got no further. Here he was faced bythe royal forces, from which he fled without striking a blow, and was speedilycaptured and ultimately led to the gallows. ^Vllen, on April 23rd, 1642, Sir John Hotham, by order of Parliament, closed ZoYLANI), ANI> TaI
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . ed by conflicts for the possession of the English crown. PerkinWarbeck, after failing to effect much in Ireland, landed upon the coast ofCornwall, where his chief sympathisers were, and advanced eastward to conquerEngland. He seized upon Taunton, but got no further. Here he was faced bythe royal forces, from which he fled without striking a blow, and was speedilycaptured and ultimately led to the gallows. ^Vllen, on April 23rd, 1642, Sir John Hotham, by order of Parliament, closed ZoYLANI), ANI> TaINTON.] CAVALIER AND ROUNDHEAD. 293 the gates of Hull ai^ainst King Charles I., and thus bcn^an the great Civil War, the sympatliics of Somer-set were with the Parha-ment; but Cornwall wasstrongly Royalist, and SirRalph Hopton, raising aforce there of nearly 4,000horse and foot, sweptthrough the county be-fore any resistance couldbe organised nearer thanat Bath, and took posses-sion of Taunton on theway. Bridgwater, whosecastle mounted forty guns,was already held byColonel Wyndham for the. BKIDQWATER: THE King Although the battle of Devizesthrew the West entirely into thehands of the Royalists, Taunton wastaken by Colonel Robert Blake inthe next year. This gallant Somersetman, whose birthplace is still pointedout in Bridgwater, was afterwardsthe renowned admiral of the Com-monwealth, but he did not adopt thesea as a profession till he was pastfifty years of age. He was twiceclosely besieged by Lord Goring inTaunton, but nothing could cow thestubborn valom- of the governor, norshake the fidelity of the to^vnspeople,even though they were reduced tothe verge of starvation and saw whole streets destroyed by the mortars and
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