243:, begging that he might at least receive the two months' pay voted to his forces when they were disbanded. "When I peruse the letters which I have formerly received from both houses of parliament, with all their great promises and engagements to me, never to forget the great services which I have done them … it would almost make a man desperate to see how I am deserted and slighted in place of the great rewards which the honourable houses were pleased to promise me".
207:). Parliament, however, was so satisfied with his conduct that he was voted £300 a year, and it was decided that his regiment of horse should be one of four to be retained at the general disbanding of the army. The Presbyterian leaders relied upon Poyntz and his troops to oppose the Independents of the New Model Army, but the soldiers of the northern association entered into communication with those of Lord General
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to command the forces of the city, and Poyntz, who was also given a command, actively assisted in enlisting "reformadoes". On 2 August Poyntz and other officers dispersed a body of citizens who brought to the common council a petition "praying that some means might be used for a composure". According
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Poyntz returned to
England no later than 1644, and on 27 May 1645 was ordered by the House of Commons to have the command of a regiment of horse and a regiment of foot in the army raised by the seven associated northern counties. He was also appointed commander-in-chief of the forces of the northern
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On the collapse of the resistance of London, Poyntz fled to
Holland, publishing, in conjunction with Massey, a declaration "showing the true grounds and reasons that induced them to depart from the city, and for a while from the kingdom". "Finding", said they, "all things so uncertain, and nothing
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In about 1633 Poyntz married firstly a rich German merchant's daughter who died in childbirth before 1635. In 1635 Poyntz married another German, Anne
Eleanora de Court Stephanus de Cary in Würtemberg. Anne and their child was killed by French troops returning from Italy probably while passing
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Poyntz was the fourth son of John Poyntz of
Reigate, Surrey, and Anne Skinner. He was baptised on 3 November 1607. Poyntz was originally apprenticed to a London tradesman, but, being ill-treated by his master, he took service as a mercenary soldier in Holland, and in the
279:. The articles between Willoughby and Ayscue contain a clause permitting Poyntz to go to Antigua along with other gentlemen having estates there. Some authorities have stated that in 1661 he was again appointed governor of Antigua, and held the post until superseded by
155:, but when he failed to find employment as a soldier in England, it is likely that he returned to the continent to find further employment in the Thirty Years' War. He may have risen to the rank of sergeant-major, and may have been knighted on the battle-field.
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claimed to have served first in
English regiments in the Netherlands, entering Lord Vaux's regiment as a private soldier under a Captain Reysby, and soon after that the earl of Essex's regiment under Captain William Baillie. He went on to join the army of Count
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Catalogue also gives a list of letters by Poyntz, which were printed in pamphlet form between 1645 and 1647. Some unprinted letters by Poyntz are to be found among the Tanner MSS. in the
Bodleian Library, and among the manuscripts of the Duke of Portland.
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in 1663, but no trace of his tenure of office appears among the colonial state papers. It is added that he then retired to
Virginia, but this is not known for sure, and he may have remained in Virginia, dying there at some unknown date.
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association, with the title of colonel-general, and, on 19 August, governor of York. On taking command, Poyntz found his troops mutinous for want of pay, and at the
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Schorndorf. It is possible that he married his third wife while living abroad because in a letter to Speaker of the House of Commons,
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army. He became commander-in-chief of
Parliament's Northern Association and governor of York. He commanded the victorious Parliamentary force in the
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In February 1646 Poyntz published a vindication of himself, in which he included an account of his earlier life as well as of his recent services (
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At the end of July 1647 an open breach took place between the Parliament in London and the New Model Army. The common council chose Major-general
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in Germany and Hungary, and it was following the break up of the army that, he later claimed, he became a prisoner of the Turks.
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to the newspapers, they hacked and hewed many of the petitioners with their swords and "mortally wounded divers".
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The Vindication of Colonel-General Poyntz against the false and malicious slanders secretly cast forth against him
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in 1632. He remained in the Imperial army and the following year he campaigned in Silesia and was present at the
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answering to what was promised or expected, we held it safer wisdom to withdraw to our own friends".
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on 24 September 1645. The Presbyterians Parliamentary party thought him to be likely to oppose the
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On 14 May 1648 Poyntz wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons from
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