Eastern Association
The Eastern Association of counties was a Parliamentarian organisation during the English Civil War. It provided and administered an army which eventually became a mainstay of the Parliamentarian military effort towards the end of 1644.
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“Now Morn her rosy steps in th’ eastern clime
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