Sir Hugh Cholmley, Parliamentary governor of Scarborough, dramatically defected to the Royalist side in March 1643. He expelled the Parliamentary garrison and declared for the King. The defection was a serious blow to Parliament in the north; it gave the Royalists control of the principal harbour on the Yorkshire coast. Cholmley's subsequent defence of the castle against Parliamentary siege from 1644-45 was one of the most prolonged garrison actions in Yorkshire.
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