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====Edward Burghall!====
[[File:BurghallsDiary.jpg|450px|thumb|right|Burghall's own parts of his diary are little more than a rambling rant. Much of the detail about battles is stolen from Thomas Malbon.]]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burghall Edward Burghall] (died 1665) was an English ejected minister, a Puritan who supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. He is descrribed on his gravestone in Bunbury as a "Painful Schoolmaster"<ref>[https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/70-6-Rylands-and-Beazley.pdf see Rylands p99]</ref>. He is slso known for a curious diary called "Providence improved", which describes the state of Cheshire throughout the English Civil War. What the Handbook (and Wikipedia) does not state about him is that parts of the supposed "diary" are a virtual copy of the diary of Thomas Malbon of Nantwich (actually written in 1651) and Edward Burghall (who died in poverty) is essentially a forger/plagiarist as regards parts of his supposed diary. See Hall's "Memorials of the Civil War"<ref>[https://archive.org/details/memorialscivilw00hallgoog/page/n7/mode/2up Hall's Text]</ref> (written in 1889) for a comparison between the two works and an exposure of the forgery.
The Handbook starts off by getting the year of the battle wrong, it was in 1645, not 1646. It then quotes exactly from Hall's edition of Malbon's Memorial directly rather than from Burghall, which is all the more confusing as the author claims this is the report of Burghall! The passage chosen is that which is now believed to be erroneous and puts the king at Hoole Heath, when it is now known that at this time he was watching the near final stages of the battle from both the Cathedral and the Phoenix Tower.
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