General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green, and co. Subjects: Great Britain Herefordshire (England) History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XX. Oxford threatened by Essex and Waller – The King quits that city, Grades them, and marches upon Worcester – The parliamentary Generals separate – Waller pursues the King: takes Sudley Castle – His Majesty sends Wilmot to raise the siege of Dudley Castle: arrives at Bewdley – Exploit of Colonel Fox the brazier there – By a series of manffiuvres Charles extricates himself from his pursuers – Distress of the time: state of trade in Hereford and Worcester – The King still pursued by Waller, whom he defeats at Cropredy Bridge – Essex in the West of England: refuses the Queen a safe conduct to Bath – Charles at Evesham proposes an armistice to him – The Parliament averse from peae – Charles collects his forces, and marches into Cornwall, where Essex surrounded by the Royalists makes his escape, while his troops lay down their arms – Proceedings of Prince Rupert in Salop – Case of Thomas Hanmer: fate of Apley House – The Prince visits Oxford, and returns to Shrewsbury; is ordered by the King to relieve the Marquess of Newcastle besieged in York – Fighting in Salop – Oswestry lost – Rupert hastens into Lancashire, raises the siege of Latham House, takes Bolton by storm, loses the great battle of Marstun Moor – Details. The summer was full of action. To a soldier, its events, professionally described, might afford fit materials of useful reflection; while a general reader will take an interest rather in the various reverses of fortune, and the untechn…