Chichester was seized by Royalists at the beginning of the Civil War, the cathedral city being a natural focus for conservative and Anglican sympathy in western Sussex. Parliament besieged it in December 1642 and the city fell after a short resistance. The capture of Chichester established Parliamentary control of western Sussex.
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