“At the South end of Preston towards Wiggon is a Bridge, called Ribble Bridge, which the S

“At the South end of Preston towards Wiggon is a Bridge, called Ribble Bridge, which the Scots stoutly kept, being much secured from our shot by flanking hedges; but Lancashire foot drew out their Pikes and charged over the Bridge and by push of Pike gallantly vanquished the resolute opposers, and made way for our horse, who did great execution for two miles, tooke Duke Hamilton’s trunks and plate, but the night made us all draw back to Preston.” - account from the first day of the Battle of Preston in a letter from Major John Sanderson to his father, 20 August 1648
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Throughout 1648 Sanderson, an officer in the parliamentary army serving in Colonel Lilburne’s Regiment of Horse, recorded his daily activities on the blank pages of an almanac. This diary has survived to provide a unique insight into the life of a cavalry officer in the second Civil War. The text of the diary was first published in 1921 and Sanderson’s terse diary entries give a first hand account of events in the north of England in 1648 which led in January 1649 to the execution of King Charles I.
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The second Civil War, which lasted from April to August 1648, was a short conflict that pitted former allies, the Scottish and Parliamentarian English, against each other after the Scots sided with King Charles, who was still a prisoner of Parliament. The five-day battle of Preston was a shambolic defeat for the Scottish, while effectively sealing the king’s fate.
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