GLEMHAM, Thomas [1594c-1649] -- English Royalist Colonel-General, Sir

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Sir (1617, knighted by James I)

[During the seige of Carlisle (1645)] [e]ventually provisions began to grow scarce but Glemham, following his experience in Europe, persuaded the garrison to eat horse flesh. Glemham set the example himself, when one of the Scot's horses was killed during a skirmish with the garrison The shot horse was fetched into town; being a very stately beast, very fat, and because he was not to be cured, [Sir] Thomas Glemham eat him [at] his own table. This was the first horse flesh eaten in Carlisle siege. Later horse became the staple diet of the garrison and few of their own horses remained uneaten. When this too began to run out hempseed, dogs cats and even rats are said to have been eaten, one acccount speaks of them as having eaten things most reluctant to nature. [The Sealed Knot]

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1617	Knighted by James I
1617	Sir
1621-1622	MP for Reigate
1625-1626	MP for Aldborough
1627	In Buckingham's expedition to La Rochelle
1628c	JP
1628c	Deputy Lt. of Suffolk
1640	2° Bishop's War vs the Scots as Colonol
1640/08-1641/07	Governor of Hull
1642/03	Part of Charles I entourage in York
1642/07/22	Civil War begins
1642/10	Governor of York
1642/10	Named deputy to Earl of Cumberland as Colonel-General
1643	York under seige
1643/11	Sent into Northumbria
1644/04/16	Returns to York
1644/04/21-1644/07/16	York again beseiged
1644/07/16	York surrendered to overwhelming forces
1644/08	Arrives at Carlisle with his forces, assumes command
1645	Carlisle beseiged
1645/06/25	Carlisle surrendered
1645/08/04	Arrives at Cardiff to reinforce the King
1645/11/05	Arrives in Oxford
1646/04	Oxford beseiged
1646/06	Charles I, now a prisoner, orders Glemham to quit Oxford
1646/06/23	Glemham marches his men out of Oxford
1647	Joins the Prince of Wales in exile on the Continent

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GLEMHAM, Thomas [1594c-1649] -- English Royalist Colonel-General, Sir

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