Charles I escaped from Oxford disguised as a servant on 27 April 1646, slipping through the Parliamentary siege lines to ride north and surrender to the Scottish Covenanting army at Newark on 5 May. Oxford continued to hold until June 1646 under Sir Thomas Glemham; the king escape ended any prospect of a negotiated surrender that might have preserved more Royalist bargaining power.
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