Parliamentary cavalry based at Peterborough and Stamford conducted patrols through the Thornhaugh area west of Peterborough in 1643. Colonel Cromwell and later Colonel Francis Thornhaugh commanded cavalry that swept this zone to prevent Royalist forces from Northamptonshire raiding into the Eastern Association heartland.
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