Naseby, a village in Northampton, where the Royalists under Charles I. and Prince Rupert were defeated, “shivered utterly to ruin,” by the Parliamentary forces under Fairfax and Cromwell in June 1645, the “Ironsides” bearing the brunt of the battle and winning the honours of the day.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Narthex * Nash, John