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Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the war. The aspect ofthe University city was completely changed. Learningwas forgotten, and the youths rushed to arms. NewCollege and Christ Church echoed with the sounds ofmilitary drilling. Ammunition was stored in thecloisters of New College. Strange scenes were witnessedin the streets. Wounded troopers were carried along;now a company of Parliamentary prisoners is brought in.Against the wall of Merton poor Colonel Winchbank isplaced to be shot for surrendering Bletchingdon. TheCourt lacks not gaiety. Plays are performed before theroyal party, and during the interludes of war they huntat Woodstock. Prince Rupert is busy harrying the enemy.In 1643 the battle of Chalgrove field is fought andHampden slain. Waller and Essex press the citycloser, and Charles leaves Oxford, passing throughWolvercot and Yarnton, Handborough, Witney, andBurford, and so to Worcester. A little later he returnsand fights at Cropredy Bridge. Banbury Castle isbesieged by the Parliamentary forces under Colonel
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Oxfordshire 365 Fiennes, who makes the grand old church, so wantonlydestroyed in 1790, his headquarters, and plants hisartillery in the churchyard. Shots are continuallyexchanged by the guns of the castle and the church.The fortress holds out bravely, and is at length relievedjust when provisions have begun to fail. At length Naseby sounded the knell of the Royalistcause; Charles soon delivered himself to the Scots; andthe war was over. By order of the King, the garrisonsof Banbury, Oxford, and other places which had heldout so long, marched out and were accorded all thehonours of war, having earned the respect of both friendand foe. The havoc wrought in Oxfordshire by the war wasterrible. Banbury had especially suffered, having beenfrequently pillaged by both parties. Thame suffered inthe same way. Henley was plundered by the Royalists.Many old houses were destroyed. Banbury Castle waspulled down. Churches were defaced, stripped of theleaden roofs, which made excellent bullets, and d

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