Parliamentary forces captured Scarborough town in early 1644 confining Sir Hugh Cholmley garrison to the castle above; the town was used as a Parliamentary base for the subsequent fourteen-month siege that reduced the castle; Cholmley had famously changed sides from Parliament to the King in 1643.
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