Massacre of Bolton

On this day, the 28th of May, 1644, 'Prince Robber' and his forces of prelacy and popery stormed Bolton-le-Moors. Famed for its puritanism (‘the Geneva of Lancashire’), the attackers spent the hours and days after the attack going from house to house raping, plundering, torturing, and murdering. Contemporaries estimated that between 1600 and 2000 defenders and civilians perished in the bloodbath.

We have not forgotten.

We shall not forget.

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were killed for the word of God, and for the testimony which they maintained.

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, Lord, which art holy and true! dost not thou judge and avenge our blood on them, that dwell on the earth?

-Revelation 6:9-10, Geneva Bible