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Siege of Lyme Regis, the Glossary

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1644 in England
17th century in Dorset
Military history of Dorset
Sieges of the English Civil Wars

Archant

Archant Limited is a newspaper and magazine publishing company with headquarters in Norwich, England.

In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.

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Axminster

Axminster is a market town and civil parish on the eastern border of the county of Devon in England.

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Axmouth

Axmouth is a village, civil parish and former manor in the East Devon district of Devon, England, near the mouth of the River Axe.

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Barge

Barge often refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion.

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Battle of Lansdowne

The First English Civil War battle of Lansdowne, or Lansdown, was fought on 5 July 1643, at Lansdowne Hill, near Bath, Somerset, England.

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Battle of Lostwithiel

The Battle of Lostwithiel took place over a 13-day period from 21 August to 2 September 1644, around the town of Lostwithiel and along the River Fowey valley in Cornwall during the First English Civil War. Siege of Lyme Regis and Battle of Lostwithiel are 1644 in England.

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Battle of Roundway Down

The Battle of Roundway Down was fought on 13 July 1643 at Roundway Down near Devizes, in Wiltshire during the First English Civil War.

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Beaminster

Beaminster is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England, approximately northwest of the county town Dorchester.

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Blockade

A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force.

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Blockhouse

A blockhouse is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or more rooms with loopholes, allowing its defenders to fire in various directions.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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Bristol Channel

The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren, literal translation: "Severn Sea") is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales (from Pembrokeshire to the Vale of Glamorgan) and South West England (from Devon, Somerset to North Somerset).

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Cavalier

The term "Cavalier" was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier royalist supporters of Charles I of England and his son Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 –). It was later adopted by the Royalists themselves.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Charmouth

Charmouth is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England.

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Coastal erosion

Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides, wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms.

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Commonwealth of England

The Commonwealth was the political structure during the period from 1649 to 1660 when England and Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland, were governed as a republic after the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I. The republic's existence was declared through "An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth", adopted by the Rump Parliament on 19 May 1649.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Devon

Devon (historically also known as Devonshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Ditch (fortification)

In military engineering, a ditch is an obstacle designed to slow down or break up an attacking force, while a trench is intended to provide cover to the defenders.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (18 February 16099 December 1674), was an English statesman, lawyer, diplomat and historian who served as chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War, and Lord Chancellor to Charles II from 1660 to 1667.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England.

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First English Civil War

The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646, and forms part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

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Gale (publisher)

Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources.

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Garrison

A garrison (from the French garnison, itself from the verb garnir, "to equip") is any body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it.

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General at sea

The rank of general at sea (occasionally referred to as "general of the fleet"), was the highest position of command in the English Parliamentary Navy (later the Navy of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland), and approximates to the current rank of admiral.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (abbreviated Glos.) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc (translit; Jehanne Darc; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.

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Lanham, Maryland

Lanham is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Lyme Regis

Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter.

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Mary Rose (1623)

Mary Rose was a 26-gun ship in the service of the English Navy Royal.

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Maurice of the Palatinate

Maurice, Prince Palatine of the Rhine KG (16 January 1621 – September 1652) was the fourth son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and Princess Elizabeth, only daughter of King James VI and I and Anne of Denmark.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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New Model Army

The New Model Army or New Modelled Army was a standing army formed in 1645 by the Parliamentarians during the First English Civil War, then disbanded after the Stuart Restoration in 1660.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Parley

A parley (from parler – "to speak") is a discussion or conference, especially one designed to end an argument or hostilities between two groups of people.

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Plymouth

Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England.

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Plympton

Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England.

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Poole

Poole is a coastal town and seaport on the south coast of England in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England.

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Prince Rupert of the Rhine

Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, (17 December 1619 (O.S.) – 29 November 1682 (O.S.)) was an English-German army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial governor.

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Puritans

The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.

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Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton

Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton (159628 September 1652) was an English politician, military officer and peer.

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Rampart (fortification)

The multiple ramparts of the British Camp hillfort in Herefordshire In fortification architecture, a rampart is a length of embankment or wall forming part of the defensive boundary of a castle, hillfort, settlement or other fortified site.

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Relief (military)

Relief, as a military term, refers to the breaking of a siege or an encirclement by an outside force.

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Robert Blake (admiral)

Robert Blake (27 September 1598 – 7 August 1657) was an English naval officer who served as general at sea and the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1656 to 1657.

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Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex

Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, KB, PC (11 January 1591 – 14 September 1646) was an English Parliamentarian and soldier during the first half of the 17th century.

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Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick

Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick KB, PC (May/June 158719 April 1658) was an English naval officer, politician and peer who commanded the Parliamentarian navy during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

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Roundhead

Roundheads were the supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642–1651).

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Second Battle of Newbury

The Second Battle of Newbury was a battle of the First English Civil War fought on 27 October 1644, in Speen, adjoining Newbury in Berkshire. Siege of Lyme Regis and Second Battle of Newbury are 1644 in England.

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Second English Civil War

The Second English Civil War took place between February and August 1648 in England and Wales.

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Ship money

Ship money was a tax of medieval origin levied intermittently in the Kingdom of England until the middle of the 17th century.

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Siege of Plymouth

The siege of Plymouth took place during the First English Civil War, when Royalist forces besieged Plymouth, in Devon, held by a Parliamentary garrison. Siege of Lyme Regis and siege of Plymouth are sieges of the English Civil Wars.

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Sieges of Taunton

The sieges of Taunton were a series of three blockades during the First English Civil War. Siege of Lyme Regis and sieges of Taunton are 1644 in England and sieges of the English Civil Wars.

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Somerset

Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Storming of Bristol

The Storming of Bristol took place from 23 to 26 July 1643, during the First English Civil War.

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Tavistock

Tavistock is an ancient stannary and market town in West Devon, England.

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The Mariner's Mirror

The Mariner's Mirror is the quarterly academic journal of the Society for Nautical Research in the United Kingdom.

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Thomas Trenchard (Dorset MP)

Sir Thomas Trenchard (1582 – 1657) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1648.

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Walter Erle

Sir Walter Erle or Earle (22 November 1586 – 1 September 1665) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1648.

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West Country

The West Country (An Tir West) is a loosely defined area within southwest England, usually taken to include the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol, with some considering it to extend to all or parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Lyme_Regis

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Siege of Lyme Regis, the Glossary

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See also

1644 in England

17th century in Dorset

Military history of Dorset

Sieges of the English Civil Wars

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