Cornet George Joyce (born 1618) was an officer in the Parliamentary New Model Army during the English Civil War.\n', '

Between 2 and 5 June 1647, while the New Model Army was assembling for rendezvous at the behest of the recently formed Army Council, George Joyce seized King Charles I from Parliament\'s custody at Holdenby House and brought him to Thomas Fairfax\'s headquarters on Triplo Heath (8 miles south of Cambridge, and now spelled Thriplow Heath), a move that weakened Parliament\'s position and strengthened the Army\'s.\n', '

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