Siege of Lowestoft

The Siege of Lowestoft was a brief Parliamentarian operation in March 1643 during the First English Civil War, when Oliver Cromwell suppressed a small Royalist rising that had secured the port of Lowestoft in Suffolk. In what was one of the first major actions of Cromwell's Regiment of Horse, ^[1] the Eastern Association forces seized arms and took the local gentry prisoner to Cambridge. ^[2] Unlike much of Suffolk Lowestoft was sympathetic to the royalists partly due to her commercial rivalry with the Parliamentarian Great Yarmouth. ^[3] It was the only battle in the Civil War within the otherwise solidly Parliamentarian Suffolk. ^[4] Prisoners taken by Cromwell included the courtiers John Pettus ^[5] and Thomas Knyvett.

References

1. Firth 1899, p. 25.
2. Wedgwood 1970, p. 171.
3. Laughton, John Knox (1885). "Allin, Thomas"  . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 332–333.
4. A Brief History of Suffolk
5. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Pettus, John"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 45. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Sources

• Firth, Charles Harding (1899). "The Raising of the Ironsides". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. New Series. 13. Cambridge University Press: 17–73. doi:10.2307/3678126. JSTOR   3678126.
• Wedgwood, C.V. (1970). The King's War: 1641-1647. London: Fontana.