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SIR CHARLES LUCAS (d. 1648)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 93 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR CHARLES LUCAS (d. 1648)  ,
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English soldier, was the son of
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Sir Thomas Lucas of Colchester, Essex . As a young man he saw service in the
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Netherlands under the command of his
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brother, and in the " Bishops' War " he commanded a troop of horse in King Charles I.'s army . In 1639 he was made a knight . At the outbreak of the
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Civil War Lucas naturally took the king's side, and at the first cavalry fight, Powick
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Bridge, he was wounded . Early in 1643 he raised a regiment of horse, with which he defeated Middleton at Padbury on
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July 1st . In
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January 1644 he commanded the forces attacking Nottingham, and soon afterwards, on Prince Rupert's recommendation, he was made
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lieutenant-general of Newcastle's
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Northern army . When New-castle was shut up in York, Lucas and the cavalry remained in the open country, and when Rupert's relieving army crossed the mountains into
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Yorkshire he was quickly joined by New-castle's squadrons . At Marston
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Moor Lucas swept Fairfax's Yorkshire horse before him, but later in the day he was taken prisoner . Exchanged during the winter, he defended Berkeley Castle for a short time against Rainsborough, but was soon in the field again . As lieutenant-general of all the horse he accompanied Lord Astley in the last
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campaign of the first war, and, taken prisoner at Stow-on-the-Wold, he engaged not to bear arms against parliament in the future . This parole he must be held to have broken when he took a prominent
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part in the seizure of Colchester in 1648 . That place was soon invested, and finally fell, after a desperate resistance, to Fairfax's army .

The

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superior
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officers had to surrender " at mercy," and Lucas and Sir George Lisle were immediately tried by court martial and sentenced to
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death . The two Royalists were shot the same evening in the Castle of Colchester . See Lloyd,
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Memoirs of Excellent Personages (1669) ; and
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Earl de Grey, A Memoir of the
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Life of Sir Charles Lucas (1845) .

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