Windsor Castle, the greatest royal fortress in southern England, was seized for Parliament at the outbreak of war. Its garrison provided a powerful Parliamentary presence in the home counties between London and Oxford. The castle served as a prison for captured Royalists and was briefly used to hold Charles I himself after his capture. It was from Windsor that Charles was brought to London for his trial in 1649.
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