A true and most sad relation of the hard usage and extrem cruelty used on Captain Wingate, Captaine Vivers, Captaine Austin, Capt: Lidcott, Capt: Walton, Capt; Catsby, Capt: Lilbourne, Master Franklin, Master Freeman, Edward Chillendon, Master John Bayley and his father, with others of the Parliament souldiers, &c. Prisoner at Oxford, under the custody of one Smith Provost-marshall generall to the kings army: / written by one of the same prisoners in behalf of them all, to a vvorthy and eminent citizen of London, dated 9th of February, 1642.

Abstract

"A straightforward and apparently unexaggerated account of somewhat harsh treatment meted out to those prisoners in Oxford Castle who would not sign a protestation of loyalty by Capt. William Smith." -- cf. Madan. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.