00:00And I do just want to give you a little bit of a scene setter, because the English Civil
00:10Wars are quite a complicated period. I'm not going to give you a history lesson, don't
00:16worry. But I did them for A-level and I didn't really enjoy them, I have to say. But it is
00:23a really exciting and dangerous time in our history, which these guys will all too well
00:29attest to as they blast each other to Kingdom Come every weekend. Not you, Sam, probably,
00:36but anyway.
00:37If we can just get to Hazel, she wriggled alongside, that's Meriwether, joining him
00:48in the search for a gap in the wall of red-coated soldiers. But the men stood shoulder to shoulder
00:53wherever they looked. Even if they managed to break through, the guards would surely
00:57shoot them or the pony down. As she and Ned exchanged frowns, the distant blast of a
01:03trumpet rang out, followed by a series of great thudding booms. Ned's face paled.
01:09Cannon fire. It started. For a brief instant there was silence. Then a ripple of new sounds
01:15reached them on the breeze. Men's shouts and cries mixed with the frantic whinnying of
01:20horses and volleys of musket fire. Meriwether recoiled at the sudden vision of her father
01:25galloping towards the enemy line of fire. She couldn't lie huddled here like a coward
01:29while he was risking his life a few fields away in battle. Offering up a silent prayer,
01:34she took a deep breath in and crawled forwards. Ned gripped her arm. Wait, where are you going?
01:40To find my father. What? I made a promise and I'm going to keep it. He hesitated, then
01:47dropped his hand and nodded.
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