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*** Clarendon, vol.v.p.

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A great booty was taken and distributed among them: fifteen hundred prisoners fell into the king's hands.

This success, which struck a great terror into the parliamentary army, determined Fairfax to leave Oxford, which he was beginning to approach; and he marched towards the king, with an intention of offering him battle.

The king was advancing towards Oxford, in order to raise the siege, which, he apprehended, was now begun; and both armies, ere they were aware, had advanced within six miles of each other.

A council of war was called by the king, in order to deliberate concerning the measures which he should now pursue.