Sir William Widdrington put together a scratch force, which included Henderson's Royalist cavalry, in an attempt to relieve the castle.
The estates of a later William Widdrington were sequestrated, and sold by the Crown, as a result of his attainder for treason for his part in the Jacobite uprising of 1715.
William Widdrington, 4th Baron Widdrington (1678–1743), English peer and supporter of the Stuart claim to the English Crown
He served as governor of Lincoln in 1643, and on 2 November 1643 was elevated to the Peerage as 1st Baron Widdrington of Blankney.
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Widdrington was born on 11 July 1610, the son and heir of Sir Henry Widdrington of Widdrington, Northumberland and his wife Mary Curwen, daughter of Sir Nicholas Curwen.
Widdrington was the son of William Widdrington, 3rd Baron Widdrington, by the Honourable Alathea Fairfax, daughter of Charles Fairfax, 5th Viscount Fairfax of Emley.
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His brother Peregrine and sister-in-law Maria, Duchess of Norfolk, were both staunch Jacobites as well.
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