Parliamentary forces in Nottingham under Colonel John Hutchinson conducted repeated cavalry sorties in 1643 against Royalist forces besetting the town. These sorties clashed with Royalist raiding parties from Newark and Belvoir, producing a series of small engagements around the town that kept the garrison active and prevented a formal Royalist siege.
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