ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the casualty lists of the Civil War battles, which give a clear idea of the slaughter. The progress of the battle could well be traced by the lines of the dead, the ranks of Yorkshire Whitecoats at White Syke Close, the dreadful tangle of horse and man where Cromwell's Ironsides had been at hand-strokes with Rupert's Cavaliers, the lanes the cannon had carved in the ranks It seems that here the Royalists lost a third of their force. Prisoners of war were often inadequately housed and fed. The only other fate for the prisoner was to be exchanged. In those days elevation to the peerage or a knighthood meant a very great deal, and it was an economical way of rewarding services rendered. Another convenient form of reward, particularly acceptable to those with academic pretensions, was the giving of honorary degrees.
