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The only substantial engagement, the Battle of Newburn, is recorded only as a combined casualty figure of roughly three hundred that does not separate killed from wounded, the First Bishops' War produced no significant battle at all, and no historian has estimated the mortality from disease in the two large armies mustered for the campaigns, which was often the larger cause of death in musters of this period.
What would resolve this A study working from English and Scottish muster rolls, parish burial records and military pay records for 1639 and 1640, of the kind Fissel's archival research draws on for the campaigns' administration, extended specifically to separate combat deaths from wounded at Newburn and to estimate camp mortality across both musters.
OpenEarly modern British history; military demographyMark Charles Fissel, The Bishops' Wars: Charles I's Campaigns against Scotland, 1638 to 1640
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No historian consulted has separated killed from wounded at Newburn or estimated camp mortality across the two musters.
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