Bradford was a centre of Parliamentary support in the West Riding, its clothworkers providing staunch support for the Fairfaxes. The town was besieged by Newcastle's Royalist army in 1643. A scratch garrison of clothworkers and local volunteers — coordinated by the young John Lambert — initially held the town. Bradford fell and was briefly occupied by Royalists before Parliamentary counter-pressure. The town's experience exemplifies the local community character of the Yorkshire Civil War, where cloth towns resisted and agricultural areas tended to Royalism.
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