ABSTRACT
Upon his return to England, George Goring joined the Earl of Newcastle’s army of the north. As lieutenant general of horse, he led the royalist cavalry against the Parliamentary forces in Yorkshire and scored a notable success against Sir Thomas Fairfax at Seacroft Moor in March 1643. Sir Thomas, in turn, launched a retaliatory raid on Wakefield and captured not just the town but also its governor, George Goring. While Parliament publicly celebrated this victory, Goring found himself in the Tower of London, removed from the war, which entered a new phase when the Scots allied with Parliament. Only in March 1644 was Goring to gain his freedom and rejoin the war in the north.
