Scarborough was seized for the King again during the Second Civil War of 1648 by Colonel Matthew Boynton. Parliamentary forces besieged it a second time; the castle resisted until December 1648. This second reduction left the castle in ruins; Parliament finally ordered it permanently slighted. The sequence of two sieges in four years reduced one of England's most formidable coastal fortresses to a ruin.
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