Newark was a key Royalist garrison on the Great North Road — described as the "Key to the North." It withstood three separate Parliamentary sieges for nearly three years. It only surrendered in May 1646 when Charles I, himself a prisoner of the Scots, sent orders for it to yield. The garrison marched out with full honours.
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