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. Cromwell's Eastern Association forces seized arms and took the local gentry prisoner to Cambridge. ^[1] Unlike much of Suffolk Lowestoft was sympathetic to the royalists partly due to her commercial rivalry with the Parliamentarian Great Yarmouth. ^[2] It was the only battle in the Civil War within the otherwise solidly Parliamentarian Suffolk. ^[3] Prisoners taken by Cromwell included the courtiers John Pettus ^[4] and Thomas Knyvett.

References

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

Sources

• Wedgwood, C.V. (1970). The King's War: 1641-1647. London: Fontana.