The Two Protectors
(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... less in all the world, came to him from the Committee of both Kingdoms." Cromwell lost no time--he never did--in getting into Oxfordshire, and on the 24th April, 1645, came up with the convoy at Islip Bridge and utterly routed it, thus defeating Rupert's little design. Some of the flying Royalists took refuge in a strong house in Bletchington, where one Colonel Windebank was in command. Oliver demanded the surrender of this place, and at midnight, his terms having been agreed to, the garrison marched out, leaving the victor some hundreds of muskets and other arms, and seventy-one horses. Poor Windebank went to Oxford, where he was at once court-martialed, so enraged were his party, as Oliver was without foot soldiers and battering guns when he demanded the surrender. It appears that it was the presence of Windebank's young wife in the house, and of other "ladies on a visit there," that caused him to yield without fighting, so "he set his back to the wall of Merton College and received his death-volley with a soldier's stoicism." t a"Reverse for 0n the 29th April' Cromwell met ©Itver, with one of his rare reverses, for after 29 Hprtl, 1645. summoning the Governor of Farringdon to surrender, without result, he stormed the place with a loss of fourteen men, and then had to draw off his forces discomfited. In June, Cromwell had not resumed his Parliamentary duties since the passing of the Self-denying Ordinance, for after the affair at Farringdon he had been called away to the Fen Country, which was in Sprigge's Avglia Rediviva, 1647. t Heath's Chronicle. a very unsatisfactory state. Says Carlyle: "To Fairfax and his officers, to the Parliament, to the Committee of both Kingdoms, to all persons, it is clear that Cromwell cannot be...
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