Reigate was one of several Surrey towns where Royalist sympathies persisted into the Second Civil War. Parliamentary cavalry operations across the county suppressed local Royalist activity and prevented the kind of mass assembly that had occurred in Kent. The rapid movement of Parliamentary horse through Surrey demonstrated the military superiority that allowed Parliament to contain the Second Civil War risings in detail.
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