Bedford was held as a Parliamentary garrison in the Eastern Midlands throughout 1643, controlling the River Great Ouse crossing and serving as a supply base for the Eastern Association. Parliamentary cavalry from Bedford conducted patrols northward into Northamptonshire and westward to block Royalist raids from Oxford and the Midlands.
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