This Day in History: 1645-03-22

On 22nd March 1645, Nathan Drake, Royalist diarist, recorded: ‘..we shott 15 Cannon to sevrall places & we had a woman shott thorow the hand, and a man shott thorow the thigh wth the same bulllitt upon the toppe of the round tower (but neither killd). The enemy fell a trenching in divers places about the towne but espetially before Allderman Lunnes howse..’