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Prince Rupert had been sent by the King to end the siege of York. York was the most important royalist city in the North and was surrounded by a Parliamentarian army commanded by the Earls of Leven and Manchester.

Prince Rupert had orders from the King to free York and then march South to join him in Oxford.

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