Exeter was the only significant city in the south-west to fall to the Royalists. Prince Maurice besieged it successfully. The city became the Royalist capital of the west; Queen Henrietta Maria gave birth there in 1644 and escaped to France; the city was taken back by Fairfax in April 1646.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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