ColonelThomasPride
@Cromwell_Buff
Enthralling life story of brewer, army officer and Regicide Thomas Pride: from Somerset farm-boy to Oliver Cromwell's right-hand man. From @Helionbooks
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13 July 1644: Royalist Captain Atkyns attempts to kill Sir Arthur Hesilrige, MP for Leicestershire, at the battle of #RoundwayDown .
'I'm sure I hit his head, for I touched it before I gave fire... but he was too well-armed all over for a pistol bullet to do him any hurt.'