Excerpt from Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army During the Great Civil War: Kept by Richard Symonds; Now First Published From the Original Ms. In the British Museum The author of the following Diary, Richard Symonds, was descended, as will be seen on reference to the accompanying pedigree, from a respectable gentleman's family, sometime seated at a mansion called the Poole, in the parish of Great Yeldham, in the county of Essex. He was himself, however, a native of the parish of Black Notley, in the same county, where his father had acquired a small property in right of his wife. At the outbreak of the great Civil War, between Charles and the Parliament, our author joined the royal standard; while his cousin, of the elder branch, and of the same name, took the opposite side, and fell in the cause of his country at the crowning fight of Naseby. The royalist was, as he tells us, in the troop of horse commanded by Lord Bernard Stuart, a younger son of the Duke of Lenox, and during the various operations in which they were engaged he seems never, in his leisure moments, to have lost sight of his ruling passion, the love of topography, with its handmaids genealogy and heraldry; and, on all occasions, to have had his note-book in his pocket to jot down, from time to time, whatever, in churches or in country mansions, might elucidate his favourite pursuit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.