In May 1646, at the end of the first English civil war, King
Charles I had surrendered to a Scottish army at Newark, in
Nottinghamshire. At the end of January 1647, the Scots had handed
him over to the English Parliamentarians, who then proceeded to
take him as a captive to Holdenby House (also known as Holmby
House) in Northamptonshire.
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- English Civil War