WE hold it convenient to give you a true Relation of the paſſages concerning the Kings Forces, and their appearing againſt the Towne. On Saturday laſt they marched from Oxford and thoſe parts, and on Sunday the greateſt part of them came to Thame: on Munday all their forces were drawn neer to this Town, within one mile and two miles of the place, and ſhewed as if they would have fallen upon us that day, but they ſpent that day in viewing of the Town, where to make their beſt aſſault, and interpoſing betwixt us and the Chiltein parts of our Countrey, to hinder their aſſiſtance of us, where we had ſeverall skirmiſhes without any loſſe; The Earl of Carnarvan commanded a great body of horſe, and marched all Sunday night to Wendover, where he hoped to have taken one of our Troops of horſe, which we had drawn thence ſome few hours before, but they plundered that Town, and the adjacent towns, and committed many outrages beſides as we are informed. On Munday night the whole forces quartered within a mile or two of this Town, and the next morning their horſe drew towards us, almoſt within Cannon-ſhott, and wee expected every houre when they would fall upon the Town, and our horſe drew into the field towards them, and the forlorn hopes fired one upon another often, but they being much too ſtrong in horſe for us, we drew our horſe into the Town, preparing for their aſſault, but whilſt we looked for their approach, they drew away towards evening on Tueſday, and in ſtead of Souldiers turned Sheep-ſtealers, for they have plundered all the Towns hereabouts, of all their goods and houſholdſtuff; they have taken and driven away all their Horſes, Beaſts and Sheep, and in this iniquity have herein onely dealt equally, that they have not ſpared thoſe who are accounted their own friends: they ſpoiled and tore in pieces the inſide of divers fair houſes, and beſides the corn they ſpent upon their Horſes, they ſpoiled and ſpilt very much upon the ground, and threw it about the fields, and what goods they could not carry away, they cut in pieces, and threw about the fields and high-wayes as they went; they have not onely taken away the Horſes which ſhould now plow our grounds for ſeed, but they have cut in pieces their Horſe-harneſſes, and things belonging to the plough, as if they meant to bring the Kingdom to deſtruction in an inſtant. And we muſt be bold to ſignifie unto you that theſe cruelties are not acted by mean ones; for the Commanders herein, as we are informed, were, Generall Ruthin, the Princes Rupert and Maurice, the Earl of Carnarvan, Lord Grandiſon, Lord Wentworth, and Colonell Gerrard, with many others of their great ones; the Forces they came with, were all they could get together, not leaving men enough to relieve their Guard in Oxford; their Forces were, as we collect by all our diſcoveries, about Six thouſand, who had devoured us in their thoughts before they came neer us; but God diſcouraged them from aſſaulting us, which if they had done, they would have found it a hot ſervice; for our ſouldiers and Country-men within the Towne were very bravely reſolved to defend the place, though much inferiour to them in number, beſides the great addition of ſtrength ſent unto us by his Excellency the Earl of Eſſex; whoſe care of us, and conſideration of the State, in ſecuring this place, is never to be forgotten; for his Forces came to us much ſooner than we could expect; and had the enemy ſtayed but few hours longer, we had given them battell in the field: But it was not Gods pleaſure the troubles of the time ſhould ſo end, as yet we muſt expect his further pleaſure. This is all they have to inform you, (and if you ſhall think fit to impart unto the Houſe) who are