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If you'd been looking down this road in 1643, the following would have been coming towards you:
3 cannon
2 drakes
1 great mortarpiece
120 odd wagons and carriages laden with provisions
An armye[sic] consistynge[sic] of neer[sic] 5,000
#civilwar #wem
3 cannon
2 drakes
1 great mortarpiece
120 odd wagons and carriages laden with provisions
An armye[sic] consistynge[sic] of neer[sic] 5,000
#civilwar #wem
A 50 acre woodland would juat have been felled nearer Wem at Lacon, and taken to make earth and timber ramparts around the town...
The houses outside the new rampart walls would have been flattened...
