Sir Hugh Cholmley had famously defected from Parliament to the King in 1643. Parliamentary forces besieged Scarborough Castle; a naval blockade prevented sea supply. The bombardment shattered the medieval keep. Cholmley held out for over a year before surrendering. The ruins of the keep, split by Parliamentary cannon fire, remain visible today. It was one of the most prolonged Yorkshire sieges of the war.
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