Wednesday 14.
His Excellency perceiving the Enemy would not stand the field, resolved to sit down before the Town in order to asiege (being too few to storm it) having not then, nor when be first enga∣ged, 1500 old foot, and but about 1500 horse, and two Troops of Dragoons, (besides the two Regi∣ments of the Trained Bands, under Col. Sir Thomas HunniWood, and Col. Cooke,) the Enemy at that time being about 6000 Horse and Foot in Town, and the Town and Suburbs larger in compasse then Oxford, and would require 5000 men to besiege it; appointed Lexden in the road to London for the Head-Quar∣ter, where the greatest body was to lie, to prevent more aid for coming from London to the Lord Goring, and kept strong Guards of Horse on Cambridge road, on the other side the River, that they might not e∣scape Northward, to joyn with Sir Marmaduke Langdale, leaving no place open to them, but towards the Sea, where they could not go far; and the same day his Excellency sent a party of Horse to secure Mersey Island, to prevent the Revolted ships from comming Into the River to relieve the Town; the Enemy sent Colonell Tuke with a strong party an hour after, but came too late.