I hear you have
some of our late Irish army in your company: they very well know me
and that my Firelocks use not to parley. Be not unadvised, but think
of your liberty, for I vow all hopes of relief are taken from you; and
our intents are not to starve you but to batter and storm you and then
hang you all, and follow the rest of that rebellious crewe. I am no
bread-and-cheese rogue, but as ever a Loyalist, and will ever be while
I can write or name
THOMAS SANDFORD,
Nov, 28, 1643. Captain of Firelocks.
I expect your speedy answer this Tuesday night at Broadlane Hall,
where I am now, your near neighbour.
Reinforcements having arrived from Chester, this was followed by a brisk
attack on the 3rd December, whereupon the garrison being short of
provisions, a white flag was hung out from the walls, and the Castle
surrendered on the following day to Sir Michael Emley. It was held by
the Royalists for two years, but after the surrender of Chester, in Feb.
1646, Sir William Neal, the governor, capitulated (after receiving the
King's sanction--then at Oxford--) to Major-General Mytton after a
month's siege. It was probably during these operations that the
specimens of stone and iron cannon balls still remaining were used.
An entry in the Commons' Journals refers to this last event, dated 16th
March, 1645.
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