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Major Mercer (Worcestershire horse)

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Major Mercer, the commander of the Worcestershire horse, played a significant part in the Battle of Worcester in 1651, but although mentioned in primary sources his full name is not given in them. David Laing speculated that he was John Mercer, the younger brother of William Mercer who was also a parliamentary officer and author of "Angliae Speculum, or England's looking-glass" (London 1646).

Notes

  1. Baldock 1809, pp. 505, 508.
  2. Atkinson 1911.
  3. Stace 1810, pp. 111–112 noted in Laing 1862, p. 348
  4. Laing 1862, pp. 348–357.
  5. Not to be confused with England's looking-glass by Edmund Calamy the Elder (London 1642)

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