The great Medieval castle of Pontefract in Yorkshire - where Richard II
was held and murdered after his deposition - was besieged three times
during the English Civil Wars. Held by Royalists and described by Oliver
Cromwell no less as 'one of the strongest inland garrisons of the
kingdom' the castle was slighted and left in ruins after it was finally
taken by Parliament after the third and last siege during the second
Civil War of 1648. This fine account of the three sieges, out of print
since its publication in 1887, fills a much needed gap in studies of the
military history of the English Civil Wars.