Newark had withstood repeated Parliamentary sieges throughout the war and was never taken by assault. Its garrison surrendered only when Charles I, prisoner of the Scots, directly ordered it. The garrison marched out under full honours of war, having defended the key Royalist garrison on the Great North Road for the entire duration of the First Civil War.
Royalist garrison at surrender: c.2,000
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