Parliament held the medieval cathedral close with its water-filled moat. Lord Brooke, leading the Parliamentary forces, was shot through the eye by a Royalist sniper from the cathedral tower on St Chad's Day. Rupert then mined under the Close walls and exploded the first mine used in any English Civil War siege, breaching the defences.
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