[353] Scarborough church was stormed in 1644 by the Parliament soldiers, and afterwards fortified by them. It is remarkable to find church towers so constructed, as to shew they were intended for warlike purposes. Melsonby and Middleham, in Yorkshire, and Harlestone, in Northamptonshire, are examples.—Poole's Ecclesiastical Architecture, 358.
[354] Joseph Lister's Narrative, 23. Bradford was taken on the 2nd of July.
[355] Hist., 416.
[356] Rushworth, v. 287.
[357] Rushworth, v. 290. Calamy's Account, ii. 675. Palmer's Non. Con. Mem. ii. 467.
[358] Rushworth, v. 344.
[359] Sanford's Illustrations, 575.
[360] David's Annals of Nonconformity in Essex, 535.
[361] Vol. ii. 103, &c.
[362] Instructions given are inserted in Parl. Hist., iii. 151.