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158 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
Sir Ffrancis Armytage
Colonel Biron
Major Huddlestone
Colonel Steward .
June 12, 1644.
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Captain Stanhope 3, 1644.
Colonel W. Evers . .
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Colonel Charles Slingsby ,, 9
Of these Sir Henry Slingsby in his diary mentions two, " Sir Philip Biron "
(who had the guard at the Manor House), killed while leading some men
into "the bowling-green, whither the enemy had gotten"; and " a kinsman,
" Sir Charles Slingsby,"
" slain in ye field at Marston Moor, after our horse
" was gone," I suppose in Rupert's wild pursuit of the Parliamentary
horse, by Wilstrop Woodside. His body " was found and buried in York
" Minster."
His cousin, Thomas Eure, son of old Sir Ralph's youngest brother,
Sir William (a major in this Sir William's regiment of horse), was slain at
Newbury, 1643. His sister Margaret was married to Sir Thomas Howard,
fifth son of "Belted Will," who was slain at Pierce Bridge, Durham, 1642.
And others there are of the name whom it is impossible to identify.
Gardiner (vol. ix. p. 173) mentions Lieut. Eure, "a Catholic officer," who
refused to accompany the Devon men to church when halting at Wellington,
July 12, 1640, and was murdered by them, the population sympathising with
the perpetrators and the crime ;
and another Isaac Eure, whose name
appears amongst the signatures to the death-warrant of Charles I.
In 7^i? History of the King-killers he is curtly described as " an obscure
" traitor, said to have been of an ancient family in Yorkshire." Noble, in his
Lives of the English Regicides (vol. i. p. 203), says that he was of the ennobled
family of the Barons Eure, in Yorkshire. He seems to have had a command
in the Parliamentary army, and in May, 1648, took Chepstow Castle, killing
Sir Nicholas Kemish and taking 120 prisoners, for which he received a letter
of thanks from the Parliament. In the same year he was made the
instrument for executing the most daring stroke of policy which Cromwell
had yet devised. The siege of Colchester had just terminated, with the
wanton murder of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle that indelible
blot on the otherwise blameless reputation of Lord Fairfax. The army was
now triumphant, and Cromwell (intending to carry out extreme measures as
regards the King) was anxious to get him from the protection of the
Parliament into the hands of the army. He therefore persuaded the council
of general officers to send a remonstrance to the Parliament, complaining of
their treaty with him, and demanding his punishment for the blood spilt
during the war. At the same time they advanced with the army to
Windsor, and sent Colonel Eure to seize the King's person at Carisbrook.
In the Memorials of the Civil War, by Henry Gary (vol. ii. p. 60), there is a
letter from Col. Hammond, the Governor, to the Speaker, reporting the
arrival of Colonel Eure with a letter from " the General Council of the