In 1642 Royalist gentry across Norfolk attempted to secure their country houses as fortified bases and to seize county horses and arms. The Parliamentary Norfolk county committee responded by seizing Royalist manor houses and their contents before formal fortification could be completed. Several Norfolk houses were briefly fortified and then taken or abandoned.
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