[145] This castle was first taken by Colonel Ashton, in June, 1643, but Sir John Girlington, having got hold of it, reoccupied it.
[146] For full details of these two sieges see “Civil War Tracts,” Chetham Soc., ii.
[147] Seacome’s “Memoirs of the House of Stanley.”
[148] In Salford Chapel, “for poor distressed Bolton,” the very large sum of £140 was collected (“Vicar’s Chronicle”).
[149] By way of Blackburn and Colne; at the latter place a slight skirmish took place on June 25. At Kirkham, between May and September, 1644, no accounts of the vestry were kept, because “Prince Rupert’s army” had command of the county, and many of the parishioners had fled. In 1642 the soldiers “pulled asunder the organ pipes in the church.”
[150] “A Discourse of the Warr in Lancashire.”
[151] Another authority gives 32,000 (Burghall’s “Civil War in Cheshire”).
[152] Lieut.–General Cromwell’s letter to the Hon. William Lenthall.
[153] Burghall put the killed and wounded at 4,000, and adds that they took 6,000 prisoners!
[154] Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser., 1648–9, p. 219.