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There were plans to seize Salisbury, Newcastle, York and Winchester and instigate smaller uprisings in Nottinghamshire and Cheshire. The New Model Army garrison in Winchester was reinforced shortly before the uprising so plans to attack it were abandoned. No men answered the call in Cheshire, but risings did take place in the other places. However, at all of the locations except Salisbury, the Royalists disbanded without a fight due to lack of support. Salisbury Cathedral by Constable. ... Places on Earth named Newcastle Australia Newcastle, New South Wales Canada Newcastle, New Brunswick Newcastle, Ontario West Indies Newcastle, Nevis, Saint Kitts and Nevis South Africa Newcastle, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa United Kingdom Newcastle, Northern Ireland Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, Wales Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyneside, England Newcastle-under-Lyme... York is a city in Northern England, built at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. ... This article is about the English county. ... The New Model Army became the best known of the various Parliamentarian armies in the English Civil War. ...

Sir John Penruddock along with Sir Joseph Wagstaffe organised and lead the Royalist uprising in the West. On March 11 Penruddock with between 300 and 400 other Cavaliers took Salisbury and raised the Royal standard. The next morning he led his followers out of Salisbury heading west through Blandford, Sherborne and Yeovil hoping to pick up more supporters, but a single troop of horse of the New Model Army under Captain Unton Crook defeated them after a three-hour street fight in South Molton in Devonshire on 14 March. Most of the Royalists either fled or were killed but Crook captured Penruddock and the other ringleaders. For his part in the rebellion Penruddock was beheaded in May 1655. Some other Royalists who took part were executed and 70 were shipped to the West Indies and sold as indentured labour (slaves). March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... The town hall Blandford Forum, or Blandford is a town on the River Stour in Dorset, England. ... Sherborne Abbey Sherborne is an affluent market town in north west Dorset, England, situated on the River Yeo and A30 road, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale six miles east of Yeovil. ... Yeovil is a town in south Somerset, England, on the A30 and A37. ... This page is about the English county, for alternative meanings see Devon (disambiguation). ... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ... The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ... An Indentured servant is an unfree labourer under contract to work (for a specified amount of time) for another person, often without any pay, but in exchange for accommodation, food, other essentials and/or free passage to a new country. ...

External links

• Original letters and other communications (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/5853/Disbrowe/ch_08.html) between Oliver Cromwell and Major General of the West John Disbrowe They are all dated 1654 which conflicts with the other sources.
• Penruddock's Uprising, 1655 (http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/glossary/penruddocks-uprising.htm)
• Biography (http://www.reenacting.co.uk/henry-wansey.shtml) of Henry Wansey who was in Salilsbury at the time of the uprising
• Sealed Knot (http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide17/timeline33.html)