Editing Coventry (section)

===Civil War and aftermath===
[[File:Swanswell Gate.jpg|thumb|Swanswell Gate, one of the remaining fragments of Coventry's city walls.]]
During the [[English Civil War]] Coventry became a bastion of the [[Roundheads|Parliamentarians]]: In August 1642, a [[Cavalier|Royalist]] force led by [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] attacked Coventry. After a two-day battle, however, the attackers were unable to breach the city walls, and the city's garrison and townspeople successfully repelled the attack, forcing the King's forces to withdraw. During the [[Second English Civil War|Second Civil War]] many Scottish Royalist prisoners were held in Coventry; it is thought likely that the idiom "[[sent to Coventry]]", meaning to [[ostracise]] someone, derived from this period, owing to the often hostile attitude displayed towards the prisoners by the city folk.{{sfn|Walters|2019|pp=103–106}}

Following the [[Stuart Restoration|restoration of the monarchy]], as punishment for the support given to the Parliamentarians, [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]] ordered that the city's walls be [[Slighting|slighted]] (damaged and made useless as defences) which was carried out in 1662.{{sfn|Walters|2019|pp=110–111}}