On 28 October 1648 a raiding party of twenty-two Pontefract Royalists rode overnight to Doncaster, forced their way into the quarters of the Parliamentary general Colonel Thomas Rainsborough, and killed him when he resisted. The assassination shocked Parliament and demonstrated the aggressive reach of the Pontefract garrison deep into Parliamentary-held territory.
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