| Description | "Humphrey Bulkeley Esq Captaine of horse … beinge Imployed in the Service of kinge and parliament March the 2nd 1642[-3] to Octbre 16, 1646", This is direct proof of Ormerod's statement in Hist. Chesh, that H.B. was a Parliament man; it is an account of horses lost in the Civil War in the Parliament’s service, many being killed, others stolen while at grass, while 68 were captured when H.B. himself was made prisoner; service altogether in Cheshire and the Welsh Marches under Myddelton and Mytton. Horses valued at a flat rate of £1. At the foot: "29 Oet, 1647 dd [delivered] upon oath before us Tho: Stanley, Edmund Swetenham" |