[The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. by David Hume]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. CHAPTER LVIII 59/68
30. They required him to issue orders to Oxford and to all his other garrisons, commanding their surrender to the parliament; and the king, sensible that their resistance was to very little purpose, willingly complied.
The terms given to most of them were honorable; and Fairfax, as far as it lay in his power, was very exact in observing them.
Far from allowing violence, he would not even permit insults or triumph over the unfortunate royalists; and by his generous humanity, so cruel a civil war was ended, in appearance, very calmly between the parties. Ormond, having received like orders, delivered Dublin and other forts into the hands of the parliamentary officers.
Montrose also, after having experienced still more variety of good and bad fortune, threw down his arms, and retired out of the kingdom. The marquis of Worcester, a man past eighty-four, was the last in England that submitted to the authority of the parliament.
He defended Raglan Castle to extremity; and opened not its gates till the middle of August.
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