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Sir Henry Benjamin Bunbury (1597-1664) & the Civil War

The outbreak of the English Civil War played havoc with the head of the Bunbury family when he was stripped of his title and lands for supporting the Royalist cause during Cromwell's dictatorship, and then hurled in gaol while his house was burned down.