august high sheriff chester supporter king charles english civil war robert best known ultimately unsuccessful defence family home month siege parliamentary force winter robert fined heavily parliament fighting king subsequently rewarded loyalty charles_ii following restoration monarchy wife anne children eldest william inherited robert estate father death early life robert father drowned robert years old male heir robert inherited father estate minor ward king charles came age january robert married daughter couple went sons daughters robert father law close relative namesake sir year robert marriage appointed commander chief parliamentary troops following outbreak english civil war pitched battle war fought october robert decided join royalist siege hall end commander local parliamentary forces colonel ordered seize remove value found recruited group defenders staff royalist friends nearby village arrived hall november find task taking easy imagined point siege attackers took possession house struggle defenders killed refused truce allow bodies taken local church proper services held necessitating burial garden house killed fiancé young woman brought remained house defenders end siege mary saw man led attack second command captain adams sitting wall near house borrowing musket defenders shot dead siege ended february brought cannons nearby manchester reduced hall defenders exhausted ammunition little food left hall confiscated inventory taken surrender valued contents equivalent later life robert escaped way chester high sheriff county forced flee city early following year besieged parliamentary forces time oxford residence fell months later june effectively ending war aftermath conflict included list estates owned new government robert entry follows robert deserted went lived oxford garrison parliament surrender taken negative oath exempt articles oxford vote house_of_commons parliament allowed robert estate payment fine reduced december returned years following restoration monarchy king charles_ii rewarded robert loyalty crown presenting silver box died august buried parish church contains wall monument memory eldest son william born inherited estate
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