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List of Prisoners and Wartime Seizures At Shrewsbury 1644
In a 1644 Shrewsbury report, Co. Afittom captured eight knights and baronets, forty colonels majors captains and others, two hundred soldiers, fifteen pieces of ordnance and vast armament. The Commons debated funding for Montgomery Castle and passed ordinances to empower London militia to seize arms and raise forces, targeting Papists and other suspicious persons.
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Shrewsbury
Co. Afittom
S. Souldiers
Commons
Herbers
Cherbury
Mountgomery Castle
London
Conmons
Thomas Fairfax
Londor