Basing House had resisted Parliamentary siege for over two years; Cromwell stormed it in October 1645; Inigo Jones was among those captured; the Marquess of Winchester had proclaimed that Loyalty to the Crown was his law; the slighting of Basing removed one of the great Royalist symbols of the war.
74 defenders killed in the storm
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