By the Second Bishops War Edinburgh Castle was securely in Covenanting hands. Its continued control denied Charles I any military base in Scotland and allowed the Covenanting government to operate freely from Edinburgh while their army invaded England. The castle that had symbolised royal power in Scotland was turned against the Crown for the first time in its modern history.
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