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- John_Marlay_(MP) comment "Sir John Marlay (1590-1673) was an English merchant, military commander and politician of the seventeenth century. He is best remembered for his heroic defence of Newcastle-upon-Tyne during the English Civil War, which he held for seven months against a besieging army on behalf of the Royalist cause; but through poverty and desperation he later betrayed the Royalists, and to the end of his life was reviled by most of those who knew him as a traitor.".
- Q19654964 comment "Sir John Marlay (1590-1673) was an English merchant, military commander and politician of the seventeenth century. He is best remembered for his heroic defence of Newcastle-upon-Tyne during the English Civil War, which he held for seven months against a besieging army on behalf of the Royalist cause; but through poverty and desperation he later betrayed the Royalists, and to the end of his life was reviled by most of those who knew him as a traitor.".