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APPENDIX III: THE ACCOUNTS OF THE GARRISON OF BEVERLEY, 1643

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After the King's failed siege of Hull in July 1642 he left a small garrison in Beverley, but this was soon ejected by forces under Colonel Francis Boynton. Thereafter Beverley remained in parliamentarian hands until August 1643. It became an important fundraising centre for the East Riding parliamentarians and a large garrison was established there in March 1643. The garrison accounts begin on 20 March and this date is corroborated by records from the Committee of Indemnity that demonstrate the garrison's inception as between Lady Day and Easter. This committee's records also show that Sir Edward Rodes of Great Houghton was appointed the garrison's commander-in-chief. According to Sir John Hotham, the corporation of Beverley had agreed to quarter the garrison provided the town was reimbursed by an assessment collected across the East Riding. The accounts cease a week before the arrest of Sir Edward Rodes and the unsuccessful attack on Beverley by royalist forces sent by Sir Hugh Cholmley on 29 June 1643.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 39 , December 2011 , pp. 299 - 314
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References

1 Reckitt, B.N., Charles the First and Hull, 1639–1645 (2nd edn, Howden, 1988), p. 61Google Scholar.

2 TNA, SP 24/7/13; SP 24/1/189; SP 24/3/35; SP 24/71.

3 Bodl. MS Nalson II, no. 173.

4 ‘Disbursements to the garrison at Beverley, 1642 and 1643’: TNA, SP 28/138/3.

5 This referred to Sir John Hotham as governor of Hull. With Sir John in Hull, in practice this troop would have been commanded by the lieutenant.

6 Captain Hotham's lieutenant in this troop was the Dutchman Captain Lowinger.

7 After the Hothams, the Boyntons were the next most prominent parliamentarian family in the East Riding, headed by the radical puritan baronet Sir Matthew Boynton of Barmston. His eldest son, Francis, married Constance Fiennes, daughter of Viscount Saye and Sele, and became a parliamentarian colonel. On 10 December 1642, Lord Fairfax complained to the Committee of Safety that Colonel Francis Boynton's regiment of foot had retired towards Hull, but on 29 December he acknowledged that Boynton had reinforced him at Selby with 40 horse and 500 foot. It was probably Colonel Francis Boynton, rather than his younger brother, Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Boynton, who arrested Sir John Hotham at Beverley on 28 June 1643: Collier, C.V., An Account of the Boynton Family and the Family Seat at Burton Agnes (Middlesbrough, 1914)Google Scholar; Dugdale, W., The Visitation of the County of Yorke, Surtees Society, 36 (1859), p. 126Google Scholar; BL, Add. MS 18,979, fos 129r–130v; LJ, V, p. 527; BL TT E59(2), A true relation of the discovery of a most desperate and dangerous plot, for the delivering up, and surprising of the townes of Hull and Beverley, 4 July 1643 (London, 1643), p. 5.

8 Sir Edward Rodes was arrested with the Hothams on 29 June 1643. Never brought to trial, he was later released and remained loyal to parliament during the second civil war: Rushworth, J., Historical Collections (London, 1691), Part III, II, pp. 276–80Google Scholar; Dugdale, The Visitation of the County of Yorke, p. 266; Cliffe, J.T., The Yorkshire Gentry from the Reformation to the Civil War (London, 1969), pp. 343, 359Google Scholar; Hatfield, C.W., Historical Notices of Doncaster (Doncaster, 1870), pp. 204–205Google Scholar; Wilkinson, J., Worthies, Families and Celebrities of Barnsley and the District (London, 1883), pp. 137–152Google Scholar.

9 Captain Crompton's dragoons were involved in the raid on Sherburn-in-Elmet by Sir Thomas Fairfax and John Hotham on 13 December 1642. Lord Fairfax complained on 29 December that many of Crompton's dragoons had deserted, requiring him to grant Crompton a commission to raise more: BL, TT E83(15), A true relation of the fight at Sherburn, in the county of Yorke (London, 1642), pp. 3–4; LJ, V, p. 527.

10 This Captain William Goodricke was the son of Major William Goodricke of Skidby in the Hull garrison. He first served as his father's lieutenant before being commissioned captain of a company of dragoons and serving in the Wressle castle garrison, where he succeeded Captain Carter as governor in 1643: TNA, SP 16/497/93, SP 24/50, SP 28/189; E121/4/8, no. 37; CSPD 1641–1643, p. 465; BL, TT E60(4), Two letters, the one being intercepted by the parliament's forces which was sent from Sir Hugh Cholmley to Captain Gotherick (London, 1643).

11 Matthew Boynton was Francis Boynton's younger brother and lieutenant-colonel. He later became governor of Scarborough castle, changing sides in 1648 only to be killed when the royalists were defeated at Wigan in August 1651: Binns, J., ‘A Place of Great Importance’: Scarborough in the civil wars, 1640–1660 (Preston, 1996), pp. 193–217Google Scholar, 287n.

12 Henry Vickerman of Fraisthorpe resided in the neighbouring parish to the Boyntons and served as their sergeant-major. He was mentioned in Sir Matthew Boynton's settlement of 22 July 1641 to provide for his wife and family. He was killed during the siege of Scarborough castle in 1645: HHC: Wickham-Boynton MS, U DDWB/24/5; TNA, SP 23/188/336; Dugdale, The Visitation of the County of Yorke, p. 115; Binns, J., Yorkshire in the Civil Wars: origins, impact and outcome (Pickering, N. Yorks, 2004), p. 118Google Scholar.

13 This was most probably Captain John Wittie of Beverley. From 1644, a Captain John Witty served in Sir Thomas Norcliffe's regiment of horse. Charges of horse stealing against him, while formerly a lieutenant to Captain Walter Bethell, were suspended by the Committee of Indemnity and handed over to several East Riding justices in 1650: TNA SP 28/266/97; SP 28/202/129; SP 24/5/89; SP 24/86; E121/4/8, no. 29; E121/5/7, no. 109; Dugdale, The Visitation of the County of Yorke, p. 221.

14 This company was previously commanded by Captain Robert Hammond in the Hull garrison.

15 Carter's company included a surgeon paid £1-00-00 for two weeks, six ‘odd men’ paid £1-08-00, and six cannoneers (of which five were at Cawood and one at Beverley) paid £0-17-06 each.

16 John Boynton of the Inner Temple, esq., was cornet to Sir Edward Rodes's troop. In May 1643 he was appointed lieutenant to Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Boynton: TNA, SP 24/71; E121/4/8, no. 5.

17 The pay of this company's lieutenant was advanced by Captain Hotham.

18 Carter's men were quartered separately at Cawood castle and there were several additional payments to his company. Six cannoneers were paid £10-10-00 for a fortnight's pay; Mr Watson, the surgeon, received £1-00-00 for a fortnight's pay and £2-00-00 to buy medicines; two sick men were paid £1-17-00 for the month; scouts and messengers received a total of £1-00-00; and £1-17-09 was allotted to the prisoners for a week.

19 The Dutchman Matthias Froom had been part of the garrison at Scarborough but, refusing to concur in Sir Hugh Cholmley's defection, he offered his services to the Hothams and became captain-lieutenant to Lieutenant-General John Hotham's troop. He was briefly imprisoned at the Hothams’ arrest, but served afterwards as a reformado captain under Lord Willoughby of Parham. He was mortally wounded at Gainsborough and died on 31 July 1643: TNA, SP 28/265/171–176.

20 Another Dutchman, Cornelius Vanderhurst, also deserted Sir Hugh Cholmley at his defection. By 1644 he was a captain in Colonel John Alured's regiment of horse: TNA, SP 28/267/part iv/66–70.

21 This was probably Robert Stockdale, secretary to Sir John Hotham: HHC: C BRS/7/74, BRS/7/79, BRS/7/81; Tickell, J., History of the Town and County of Kingston-upon-Hull (Hull, 1798), p. 382Google Scholar.

22 Sir John Hotham's son-in-law Sir Thomas Norcliffe also abandoned Sir Hugh Cholmley after Cholmley defected: TNA, SP 28/253a/part i/42; SP 28/299/768; Cliffe, The Yorkshire Gentry, p. 266; Dugdale, The Visitation of the County of Yorke, p. 341; BL, TT E86(40), The kingdom's weekly intelligencer (London, 1643); BL, TT E95(9), A true and exact relation of all the proceedings of Sir Hugh Cholmleys revolt, 7 April 1643 (London, 1643).

23 Note in margin: ‘This makes 3 weeks that I paid my master's troop as accounted to Robert Stockton.’

24 This included pay for four sick men of Captain Purefoy's company.

25 This was probably Robert Orme of South Newbald: Dugdale, The Visitation of the County of Yorke, p. 154.

26 This company was formerly under Captain Appleyard.

27 Sir Thomas Remington, son of Richard Remington of Lund, captained a troop of horse in the Beverley garrison: TNA, SP 23/113/582–593, SP 28/189, SP 28/202/129, SP 28/299/753; Cliffe, The Yorkshire Gentry, p. 359.

28 Paid as part of Colonel Boynton's company from this week was a drum major at £0-08-02, a wagoner at £1-12-08, a cannoneer at £0-17-06, a quartermaster at £1-08-00, and a clerk at £0-10-00.

29 A separate account for the colonel and lieutenant-colonel's companies, signed by Francis Boynton himself, survives for 5 May, listing the colonel's company at 108 men: TNA, SP 28/7/164.

30 An identical separate account for the colonel and lieutenant-colonel's companies, signed by Francis Boynton himself, survives for 9 May. It included £0-05-09 for ‘charges about the brass piece’: TNA, SP 28/7/172.

31 This included £0-10-00 for a physician.

32 An identical account for this company, signed by Colonel Francis Boynton, survives for 3 June: TNA, SP 28/7/473.

33 An account for this company, signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Boynton, survives for 3 June but does not mention that twenty-three of this company had previously been in Lieutenant-Colonel Boynton's troop but were now being paid as foot: TNA, SP 28/7/474.

34 A similar account for this company, signed by Colonel Francis Boynton, survives for 12 June, listing 186 men but £65-18-06 in pay: TNA, SP28/7/491.

35 An identical account for this company, signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Boynton, survives for 12 June: TNA, SP28/7/492.

36 This was probably the minister Robert Johnson who replaced the sequestered royalist Richard Faucon in the rectory of Bainton in 1643: TNA, SP 24/57; Rushworth, Historical Collections, Part III, II, pp. 276–280.

37 Note in margin: ‘This paid 20 June at his going to Winestead.’

38 A similar account for this company, signed by Colonel Francis Boynton, survives for 22 June, listing 182 men and £65-03-10 in pay: TNA, SP 28/7/512.

39 The total pay for this week was not given, so it was calculated by the editor.