When Parliament issued the Militia Ordinance in March 1642 claiming control of the county militias without royal assent, confrontations broke out across England between parliamentary and royalist nominees for lord lieutenancy. In Lancashire, the divided county saw particular tension, with Catholic recusant gentry backing the king and puritan gentry backing Parliament in a series of confrontations over the muster of the trained bands.
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