King's Lynn declared for the King in 1643, an isolated Royalist enclave in the Parliament-dominated Eastern Association. The Earl of Manchester besieged it with the Eastern Association army. The siege lasted five weeks; the garrison surrendered on honourable terms. The fall of Lynn secured Parliament's control of the entire East Anglian coastline and denied the Royalists a port for receiving supplies or troops from continental allies.
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