After a brief siege Hastings negotiated articles of surrender and the garrison marched out of Leicester on 18 June. As the war progressed and Royalist fortunes waned, Ashby—already the target of action in 1644—was subject to a prolonged siege between September 1645 and its surrender in March 1646. Hastings, ennobled as the first Baron Loughborough on 23 October 1643, for his services to Charles I, marched out with the honours of war. The castle was later partly demolished, with the remaining Hastings family moving to Donington Hall near Derby. In the Second Civil War he and Arthur, Lord Capell in raising troops for the Royalists, joined the Earl of Norwich, Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle in Essex and took part in the Siege of Colchester. He surrendered with the others on 28 August 1648 and was exiled by Parliament (he fled to Holland) on 18 November 1648. In this he was fortunate as Capell, Lucas and Lisle were all executed for their part in the rebellion. Upon the Restoration (for which he had worked secretly as a founder member of The Sealed Knot), Hastings was able to return to England and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire in 1661 although he only ever lived in London from then on, in a Manor House in Lambeth Wick he renamed Loughborough House. He died in 1667. Several streets and a railway station in the Brixton area of London perpetuate his name. References Henry Hastings biography External links |- |- 1610 births 1667 deaths Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Barons in the Peerage of England Lord-Lieutenants of Leicestershire Hastings, Henry People from Loughborough Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough People from the London Borough of Lambeth Royalist military personnel of the English Civil War