Parliament ordered Cromwell and his associates, "to set strong watches, sufficiently armed day and night. upon the several bridges of Germanes, Maudlyn, Soame, Stow, Downham, and all other bridges and ferries between the town of Cambridge and King's Lynn, for me apprehending of all horses of service for the wars, arms, ammunition, or plate scat to His Majesty, and also to prevent persons coming from the North into these counties for the purpose of executing the King's Commission of Array".

More Cromwell and Cambridge

Introduction
Long Parliament
Destructive Behaviour
Excerpt: Cromwell in Ely
Excerpt: Clarenden, Life
Excerpt: Parliament Orders
Excerpt: Barwick

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