The Scottish occupation of Newcastle from September 1640 to August 1641 was an extraordinary military and financial humiliation for Charles I. England paid 850 pounds per day to maintain the Scottish army — a sum that created intolerable pressure on royal finances and forced Charles to keep the Long Parliament sitting to raise the money. The occupation was thus directly responsible for the parliamentary crisis that led to civil war.
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