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Edge Hill: The Battle and Battlefield; With Notes on Banbury & Thereabout

Chapter 18: Index to Plates.
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The author provides a compact topographical guide to the ridge near Banbury and surrounding villages, combining detailed landscape description with diagrammatic battle plans and a concise narrative of the opening battle of the Civil War that reconstructs troop dispositions and movements. Contemporary letters and documentary extracts are included to enliven the account, while appended notes discuss Banbury antiquities, local architecture, and a bibliography for further reading. The work is aimed at visitors and local students, emphasizing field-oriented interpretation of terrain, revised inferences, and practical guidance for locating and understanding battlefield features.

Index to Plates.

The Tower, Edge HillFrontispiece
Plan of Battle—I.to face page20
Plan of Battle—II."29
Banbury Cross"63
Interior of St. Mary’s Church, Banbury"68
Courtyard, Rein Deer Inn, Banbury"70
Broughton Castle"74
Hanwell Castle"80
King’s Sutton Church"84
Compton Wynyates, hall window"86
Compton Wynyates, angle and chimneys"88

 

 


Corrigenda et Addenda.

p. 3, l. 5, for “Adsum” read “Hadsham.”

p. 9, l. 20, for “Holles” read “Gantham.”

p. 31, l. 16, for “Clarenden” read “Clarendon.”

p. 40, l. 22, “think it” may have been omitted.

p. 45, l. 3, Fiennes means “left.”

p. 48, l. 10, “or” of the original should read “of.”

p. 51, l. 9, the second comma is misplaced in the original, and should follow Verny.

p. 78, l. 28, for “Thos.” read “W.”

In the Plans of the Battle, “Broke” should read “Brooke.”

 

 


Footnotes:

[1] Subsequently the scene of a fight between Waller’s Puritans and the Royalists under the Earl of Cleveland.

[2] The cottage at the foot of the hill near Radway, which tradition pointed out as the one in which the King breakfasted, has been pulled down.

[3] The word “cavalier”(PQ), like that of “roundhead,” was used as a term of ridicule or reproach.

[4] In an article by Dr. Rees upon Bannerets, and also in the last edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, we are told that Captain John Smith, Lieutenant of Lord Stewart’s troop, was the last banneret knighted upon the field of battle. The order was conferred only for distinction in the field of battle, and was a very high one, ranking above all other knights, excepting the Knights of the Garter. The two tails of the pointed pennon carried by ordinary knights were cut off, and the flag thus made square. Hence they were called knights of the square flag.

[5] There is much confusion about the two Cromwell’s; Captain Oliver charged with the right wing, and the son is said to have been with Ramsay’s horse.

[6] Beesley seems to have been unacquainted both with Fiennes’ Letter (PB) as well as with Cromwell’s own statement, for he says (b18) “In no account I have yet met with is Cromwell recorded as being present.”

[7] vide Rev. C. F. Wyatt (the rector) in Danvers, p. 326.

 

 


Transcriber’s Notes:

The mismatched parenthesis on page 40 is presented as in the original text. Otherwise, punctuation has been corrected without note.

Images have been moved from the middle of a paragraph to a nearby paragraph break.

The text in the Index to Plates is presented as in the original text, but each link navigates to the page number closest to the illustration’s loaction in this document.

Several reference markers are not linked due to ambiguity.