In September 1642 Royalist cavalry under the Marquis of Hertford skirmished with Somerset Parliamentary forces at Babylon Hill near Yeovil; the inconclusive action was one of the earliest engagements in the south-west and preceded Hertford retreat into Dorset and then to Wales.
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