The Naseby Obelisk

We took a ride out in the car this afternoon and found ourselves in the village of Naseby.  We stopped for a while on the battefields and here at the site of the obelisk where the slate inscription reads:

"To commemorate that great and decisive battle fought in this field on the 14th day of June 1645 between the royalist army commanded by His Majesty King Charles 1st ans the parliament forces headed by the Generals Fairfax and Cromwell which terminated fatally for the royal cause' led to the subversion of the throne, the altar, and the constitution, and for years lunged this nation into the horrors of anarchy and civil war leaving a useful lesson to British Kings never to exceed the bounds of their just prerogative and to the British subjects never to swerve from the allegiance due to their legitimate monarch.
This pillar was erected by John and Mary Frances Fitzgerald, Lord and Lady of the Manor of Naseby  1823AD

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