1 South West prospect of the Ruins of the Churchill

THE

HISTORY

OF THE

Ancient Borough of Pontefract,

yale a

CONTAINING AN INTERESTINO

ACCOUNT OF ITS CASTLE,

AND

THE THREE DIFFERENT SIEGES IT SUSTAINED, DURING THE CIVIL WAR,

WITH

NOTES AND PEDIGREES,

OF SOME OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED

ROYALISTS AND PARLIAMENTARIANS,

CHIEFLY DRAWN FROM MANUSCRIPTS NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.

BY B. BOOTHROY D.

" I love Pom'ret. Why? Tis in all our histories:
" They are full of Pomfret Castle."

SWIFT.

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