When Laugharne and Poyer rose for the King in 1648, Royalist forces swept through Pembrokeshire including Haverfordwest. The town — which had been staunchly Parliamentary — was briefly occupied by the Royalist insurgents before Colonel Horton's counterattack and the defeat at St Fagans ended the rising. The Second Civil War in Pembrokeshire was particularly bitter because former comrades were fighting each other.
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