 He was released on 4 August 1643, but on condition that he should go into exile on the Continent and not serve the king.These conditions he ignored and two days after his release he wrote to the king and set off for the royal court then at Oxford.In October 1643 he wrote to his wife in Devon to "remember me to as many in that country as you think worth the remembering", a sign of his disenchantment with the Parliamentarian members of the gentry of Devon, his neighbours and former friends.