Date:5th of August 1642
Description:Sir Thomas’s letters also include his perception of events, making them valuable documents for interpreting public opinion at this time. Discussing the Royalist Siege of Hull he writes ‘if you will have my opinion, I beleeve Hull is but the pretext, to draw forces together, and will not be attempted’. In another letter her notes ‘every day we talke of the kings remoo[ve] Southward, but I can not see how he can advance with out better provisions, for as yet he has more men then armes’. Sir Thomas’s accounts are also valuable because his expressions of opinion appear to be relatively objective considering his Royalist loyalties. He concludes his account of events at Hull suggesting that the Siege may have damaged the Royalist cause. He writes ‘The businesse, and ill carriage of things makes the Kings affairs in worse repute then other ways they would have been.’
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