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The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684

Note 19 — CAVALIER SONGS AND BALLADS.

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Sir Lewis Dives, an active Royalist, was governor of Sherborne Castle for the King, and had been made a prisoner by Fairfax in August, 1645, when that fortress was taken by storm. He was brother-in-law to Lord Digby.

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