Charles I Surrenders to the Scots
May 5, 1646
With his army destroyed and royalists collapsing across England, Charles I rode quietly into the Scottish camp at Newark and gave himself up. The Scots, after months of haggling, sold him to the English parliament for four hundred thousand pounds. Europe's first captive king was now a bargaining chip, and the question of what to do with an anointed monarch in chains had no precedent.
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