Primary sources

Anon, A Continuation Of certain Speciall and Remarkable passages informed to both Houses of Parliament and otherwise from divers parts of this Kingdome., 6-13 April (London: F. Leach and Francis Coles, 1643)

Anon, A letter written from Walshall, by a worthy gentleman to his friend in Oxford, concerning Burmingham. (Oxford, 1643)

Anon, A Perfect Diurnall of the Passages in Parliament, 10-17 April (London: J. Okes and F. Leach, 1643)

Anon, A true relation of Prince Ruperts barbarous cruelty against the towne of Brumingham: to which place on Monday Apr. 3. 1643. he marcht with 2000 horse and foot, 4 drakes, and 2 sakers; where after two houres fight (being twice beaten off by the townsmen in all but 140 musqueteers) he entered, put divers to the sword, and burnt about 80 houses to ashes, suffering no man to carry away his goods, or quench the fire, and making no difference between friend or foe; yet by Gods providence the greatest losse fell on the malignants of the town. And of the cavaliers were slaine divers chiefe commanders, and men of great quality, amongst whom was the Earle of Denbigh, the Lord Iohn Stewart: and as themselves report the Lord Digby. (London: John Wright, 1643)

Anon, Certaine Informations from severall parts of the kingdome, 3-10 April (G.B. and R.W., 1643)

Hyde, E., History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Vol 4, ed. by Warburton, W. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1826)

Vicars, J., God on the Mount, or a Continuation of Englands Parliamentary Chronicle (London, 1643)

Anon, Mercurius Aulicus, Communicating the Intelligence and affaires of the Court, to the rest of the Kingdome, April 2-9 (Oxford, 1643)

Anon, Prince Rvpert's Burning Love to England, discovered in Birmingham's Flames; or, a more Exact and true Naration of Birmingham's Calamities, under the barbarous and inhumane Cruelties of P. Rupert's forces. (London: Thomas Underhill, 1643)

Anon, The Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer, 4-11 April (London: G.B. and R.W., 1643)

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Hutton, W., The History of Birmingham (Birmingham: James Guest, 1836)

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Royle, T., Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 (London: Abacus, 2004)

Sherwood, S., The Civil War in the Midlands, 1642-1651 (Avon: Alan Sutton, 1992)

Spencer, C., Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2007)

Willis-Bund, J. W., The Civil War in Worcestershire, 1642-1646, and the Scotch Invasion of 1651 (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., Limited, 1905)