"John Bunyan query" Topic
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CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 19 Mar 2014 8:21 a.m. PST |
link Can I pick the ECW specialists' brains? Just when I thought I'd got John Bunyan's involvement in the seige of Leicester resolved, I come across sources claiming he couldn't have enlisted in the royalist army in Bedford & that his name is on the Newport Pagnell garrison muster roll. Bunyan's own comments are in the link above. Assuming he was in the Newport Pagnell garrison, where could a detachment from that town have been called on to besiege? Anyone got a link to any current academic study on this? |
Corto Maltese | 19 Mar 2014 8:39 a.m. PST |
Do you have access to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (you can often get on-line access if you are a member of a local library)? Here is the relevant paragraph from Bunyan's entry in the ODNB, which I hope might help a little: Near his sixteenth birthday, Bunyan enlisted or was conscripted into the New Model Army. The muster rolls for the garrison at Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, though incomplete, list him as a member of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Cokayne's company from 30 November 1644 to 8 March 1645, and of Major Robert Bolton's between 21 April and 27 May 1645; he probably served in Bolton's company until its disbandment in September 1646. Because the garrison was chronically behind in its pay and poorly equipped, Bunyan's experience must have been grim. Indeed some of the troops mutinied in February 1645. Bunyan would have learned to wield a sword and probably a musket and handgun. The garrison troops participated in the siege of Oxford and the defence of Leicester as well as periodic patrols, but there is no evidence to indicate whether Bunyan was engaged in the fighting. By June 1647 he had volunteered to serve in Captain Charles O'Hara's company, which was bound for Ireland to fight the rebels, but on 21 July parliament disbanded the regiment of which O'Hara's company was a part, thus terminating Bunyan's military career. Cheers Paul |
CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 19 Mar 2014 9:17 a.m. PST |
Then his comrade would have gone to Oxford, & died there? Bunyan was explicit the detachment were to beseige, not defend 'such a place' |
CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 19 Mar 2014 10:23 a.m. PST |
Unless a detachment from Newport went to the recapture of Leicester? It strikes me there is probably a good piece of work here for a historian
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