BattlefieldsWakehurst Place Sussex Royalist Refuge 1643
English Civil War

Wakehurst Place Sussex Royalist Refuge 1643

1643
England
Era
English Civil War
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Forces
Not recorded in historical accounts
Forces
Royalist recusant sympathisers
VS
Victor
Not recorded in historical accounts
Forces
Parliamentary Sussex county committee
Outcome
Parliamentary sequestration committee acted against the Wakehurst estate; Royalist sympathisers dispersed; estate revenues sequestered for Parliament.
The Battle

History & Significance

Wakehurst Place in the mid-Sussex Weald, associated with the recusant Royalist Culpeper family, served as a refuge for Royalist sympathisers in Sussex during the Civil War. The Parliamentary county committee moved against recusant landowners whose houses sheltered Royalists and collected sequestration revenues.

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