Marston Moor

Tate Rokeby is set in Yorkshire during the English civil war, in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Marston Moor.

In fact, an old comrade of mine, who lay stricken to death on the field of Marston Moor, did bestow upon me a paper whereby the treasure should be mine.

This dog was a present from Lord Arundel, then English Ambassador at Vienna; it remained Rupert's inseparable companion for many years, and met at last a soldier's death on Marston Moor.

The Civil War had broken out in 1642, and the royalist cause began to decline from the time of the defeat at Marston Moor, in the middle of 1644.

In 1644 he was with Rupert at Marston Moor, where with Lucas he led the victorious left wing of horse.