A party of Royalist horsemen from the Pontefract garrison rode to Doncaster, kidnapped the Parliamentary siege commander Colonel Thomas Rainsborough, and killed him when Parliamentary forces attempted a rescue. Rainsborough was the leader of the Levellers in the army and had championed universal manhood suffrage at the Putney Debates. His killing was enormously controversial and possibly politically motivated. It made him a Leveller martyr.
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