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Coventry, send to refuse to associate with or speak to, perhaps deriving from the extreme unpopularity of soldiers stationed in Coventry, an industrial city in the Midlands, who were cut off socially by the citizens, or because Royalist prisoners were sent there, the city being staunchly Parliamentarian.
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