| holloway |
narrow, sunken road; worn deep down into soft sandstone or
clay by hooves and wheels |
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| cavaliers |
Royalists; the King's men |
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| Charles Stuart |
King Charles I, who believed he could rule just as he wished,
without Parliament's agreement |
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| Parliament |
the elected council of England, who wanted to curb the King's
power |
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| Coventry |
walled town that was the Parliamentary headquarters in the
Midlands during the Civil War |
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| Prince Rupert |
the King's nephew |
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| quartermasters |
officers who arranged billets for the troops in houses and
barns |
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| raise the siege |
to defeat the Parliamentary force that was camped about the
cathedral close at Lichfield, trying to capture it |
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| muskets |
muzzle-loading hand guns |
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| barricades |
barriers across streets, for the defenders to fire from |
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| dragoons |
heavily-armed horse-soldiers |
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| green |
small open space above St. Martin's Church |
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| ball |
round lead bullet |
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| headquarters |
command post of an officer |
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| Papist |
Roman Catholic |
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| blade-miller |
owner of a watermill used for slitting iron and grinding
sword-blades; Porter used mills in Edgbaston as well as in Birmingham |
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| redoubts |
small strong-points |
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| fortify |
to make strong |
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