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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64191	Oxford besiedged surprised, taken, and pittifully entred on Munday the second of Iune last, 1645. by the valiant forces of the London and Westminster Parliament. Written, by a trusty wellwisher of theirs, who sted-fastly hopes, and heartily prayes, they may have the like prosperous successe in all their future undertakings. The writers name and surname begins with the 9th letter of the Greeke alphabet, io-ta.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing T494; ESTC R222419	4,878	10

OXFORD BESIEDGED Surprised Taken and Pittifully Entred on Munday the second of Iune last 1645. by the Valiant Forces of the London and Westminster Parliament WRITTEN By a Trusty wellwisher of theirs who stedfastly hopes and heartily prayes they may have the like prosperous successe in all their future undertakings The Writers name and Surname begins with the 9th letter of the Greeke Alphabet Io-Ta Printed in the last year of the Parliament's Raigne 1645. OXFORD BESIEDGED Surprized Taken and Pittifully Entred on Munday the second of Iune last 1645. by the Valiant Forces of the London and Westminster Parliament LOndon and Westminster though neither of you are my Native or Naturall Mother yet I was borne in Glocester a City that hath stood to it in our Loyall and obedient Warres against the King not much inferiour for Parliamentall obedience or Publique Faith and Confidence to you as hath been obstinately manifested But leaving Glocester with her Massy zeale and valour I returne my loving Remembrance to London who hath been and is the inexhaustible Magazine for Men Mony and Maintenance for the supportation of those durable famous and lasting Warres against the King which the Cavaliering and Malignant Party calls Rebellion and which we have causes to call entitle nominate and acknowledge to be the Holy Cause And as our Armies have with unexpected successe been Horrible Terrible Dreadfull Fearefull Victorious and Invincible and have forraged through England Wales Scotland Ireland Coventry and Canterbury yet that stiffeneck'd Generation and People of Oxford have till now stood out in Rebellious opposition against us for that Academy and City have ever since these distracted and disturbant times been the Treasury of Refractory obstinacy and the Store-house of our Mischiefes whom to suppresse and bring into order and conformity our Almighty Parliament hath sought by all favourable meanes and by most perswasive Exhortations from the Presse and Pulpits there hath been nothing by us neglected that might reforme them But finding their obduracy immoveable their inveteracy implacable and their reducancy impossible we out of a Christian care of the future prosperity of that Renowned well-spring and Fountaine of Learning much against our pious Inclinations were inforced to surround it with our Potent and unresistible Forces of hostility twice in two severall yeares In two monthes of May we have given them two gentle and friendly Visitations viz. 1644 and 1645. and we alwaies used the most submissive way of Summoning His Majesty and that stubborne City to our obedience What a faire warning we gave them the first yeare is not unknowne and how fairly we came of and on we have cause to remember for two great Generalls and Armies did onely face them as an Instruction for them to avoyd their further desolation and calamity But seeing that gentle and mollifying Cataplasmes and Pultisses would not serve to soften the Corrodency of their Apostumated Inveteracy we have now about the latter end of this last May in the Whitsun week vouchsafed to lance her Malignant maladies and by incision and occission to let out her malevolent and contagious Corruptions To which end and purpose our potent powerfull perpetuall and pittifull Parliament begirt and swathed that contumatious City with a strong Swaddle band of Warre with foure severall Armies which being conjoyned into one with a Quadrapliciticall Vnity under the conduction of such a Messe or Murnivall of Martiall Commanders that the like or braver Heroes never issued from the Loynes of Mars Belona amongst whom the most Excellent Expert Exact and Exquisite Souldier Sir Thomasius Fairfax was Commander in chiefe being the admired Agamemnon of our Host and the only chosen pick'd or cul●'d man amongst men most worthy to be a Generall Generalissimo Secondly the Couragious and Treshault Treshnoble Cromwell shew'd himselfe like a blazing fiery Commet full of combustible Valour and Subitory Expedition Thirdly that Impe of Prowesse the Magazine and Arcenall of Armes and Military discipline the never daunted and dreadfull Skippon appear'd like the Magnanimous Achilles with his most unmatchable multitude of Mirmidons Fourthly and lastly but neither last or least in worth was the Illustrious Bold Browne in whose Braine the Art of Armes is Pyled and in whose Breast Honour is Billited he most Terribly Fearfully drew his Trenchant Sword wherewith he chop'd in sunder the Faggot-Bond of his fury insomuch that his flaming Valour like a burning Bavin appear'd most Refulgently perspicuous to the besiedged Oxonians These foure Generalls drawne in their particulars were Quarter'd in the Villages that doe Verge Fringe or Girdle the City namely Kennington South Hinkesey West Hinkesey Botley Witeham Wolvercot Marson Hedington Sampford Ifley c. By which meanes it was so strongly Block'd up that the Garrisons Forces and Inhabitants began to look thin upon the matter for they were so unprovided and unprepared to endure a Siedge that within five dayes we brought them to such a hard strait that Wheat was mounted to the price of 4s the Bushell Butter and Cheese at 6d and 3d the pound Milke at a penny the quart but 9 or ten Egges a groat Radishes a halfe penny the bunch a Iugge of Beere 2d Beefe and other Flesh so scarce that none was to be had amongst them without credit or ready mony In this extremity we perceived they were unable to hold out long therefore our Valiant Commanders like the foure Windes assaulted them at their foure severall Portes His Excellency play'd the part of Boreas and Blustred Impetuously at the North Browne with his Brave Bold Boyes Blew Boystrously like Auster at the South Cromwell Acted the part of Eurus with untireable Snuffing Puffing and Huffing at the East and Skippon like a second Scipio Rag'd most Tempestilentially like Zephyrus on the West Thus on all sides Parts and Portes was Oxford Beleaguerd without and within every House Lane and Street was full of Horror Terror Trembling like Hills There you might behold a Woman quaking like a Custard before an Alderman and in another place another shaking like an Oven there was carelesse security in sundry and severall shapes and noyses some halfe and some whole drunk some piping and whiffing some Riming and singing some watching and guarding not at all regarding either us or any thing that we could doe to them as may appeare by a mad fellow that wrote these Verses in a jeering Contempt of us and our Forces For Browne for Skippon Cromwell and for Fairfax Wee have a well string'd Instrument at Cairfax And that if they doe but their Worke by halves The Parliament would Hang em up like Calves Some of them said that our Armies should not offend the Parliament so farre as to doe their worke by halves or to doe halfe the worke they were sent about thus continued this hotch potch mingle mangle galleymawfrey of variable opinions and humourous expressions for the space of seven daies and nine nights with an afternoone or two Our Cannons with perpetuall Battry having disgorg'd 6789