Newark was the premier Royalist stronghold on the Great North Road and had held out through the entire war; it only surrendered in May 1646 on direct written order of Charles I who had surrendered himself to the Scots; the garrison of 4,000 marched out with full honours; Newark plague killed hundreds after the siege ended.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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