[2] Windebank later entered the service of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford[3] and was made Usher of the Chamber to Charles, Prince of Wales.
The colonel, who according to Yurdan[6] was newly married, allegedly invited his young wife and friends for a ball at the house to raise spirits.
[1] According to Walters[5] the execution took place against the length of town wall abutting Merton College, where Windebank bared his chest to the muskets and exclaimed "God Save the King."
[1] Windebank's ghost was reported to have haunted the site of his execution at Dead Man's Walk, Oxford, in what Walters[5] describes as one of the most well-known Civil War hauntings, which he attributes to the spirit's feeling of injustice at being executed for what he considered a chivalrous action.
[6][7][8] The first episode of the 2008 TV mini-series The Devil's Whore contains a fictionalised version of Windebank's story and fate.