The Works of Thomas Carlyle/Volume 6/Letter 26
How Cromwell, sending off his new guns and stores to Abingdon, now shot across westward to ‘Radcot Bridge’ or ‘Bampton-in-the-Bush’; and on the 26th gained a new victory there; and on the whole made a rather brilliant sally of it :—this too is known from Clarendon, or more authentically from Rushworth; but only the concluding unsuccessful part of this, the fruitless Summons to Farringdon, has left any trace in autograph.
TO THE GOVERNOR OF THE GARRISON IN FARRINGDON
Sir,—I summon you to deliver into my hands the House wherein you are, and your Ammunition, with all things else there; together with your persons, to be disposed of as the Parliament shall appoint. Which if you refuse to do, you are to expect the utmost extremity of war. I rest, your servant,
This Governor, ‘Roger Burgess,’ is not to be terrified with fierce countenance and mere dragoons; he refuses. Cromwell condenses himself about Farringdon Town, ‘sends for infantry’ (but, we fear, gets none), and again summons:
- ↑ Rushworth, vi. 26.