Biddulph Hall in north Staffordshire was garrisoned for the king and required Parliamentary reduction. The Biddulph family were committed Royalists. Such manor house garrisons were typical of the Civil War in the Midlands — large houses fortified and garrisoned, requiring Parliamentary forces to invest them one by one. The reduction of Biddulph Hall was part of the systematic Parliamentary effort to clear Royalist strongholds in Staffordshire in 1644.
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