BattlefieldsSurrey Committee Suppression of Godstone Royalists 1643
English Civil War

Surrey Committee Suppression of Godstone Royalists 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 in eastern Surrey
VS
Victor
Not recorded in historical accounts
Forces
Parliamentary Surrey county committee cavalry
Outcome
Parliamentary county committee forces suppressed Royalist organisation in eastern Surrey; recusant estates sequestered; local Royalist resistance broken.
The Battle

History & Significance

The Parliamentary Surrey county committee conducted operations in 1643 to suppress Royalist resistance in the eastern Surrey Weald around Godstone and Bletchingley. The area harboured Catholic recusant families with Royalist sympathies who resisted Parliamentary authority and sequestration orders, and Surrey horse were deployed to break up local Royalist organisation.

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