Tamerton Foliot - Civil War

Civil War

Tamerton was one of the quarters of Prince Maurice, the Brother of Prince Rupert and his army, when he besieged Plymouth from October to December 1643, during the English Civil War. But the Prince fell ill with camp fever in mid-November 1643 and withdrew from the siege to recover.

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