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Welsh history and its sources
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Poyer, John

(?  1649). Parliamentarian mayor of Pembroke who in 1648 led mutiny of his garrison troops, whose disbandment was ordered by Parliament although they were in long arrears of pay. This was the first action of the second civil war, and eventually Cromwell, Oliver successfully retook Pembroke by siege in July 1648.

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