A HISTORY OF SURREY 



report magnified into a sharp fight. A contemporary broadside 1 narrates 

 how the Cavaliers advanced through Surrey, and though the professional 

 soldiers were looking anxious, the valiant trainbands overthrew Rupert 

 on the i ith, between Oatlands and Kingston, with the loss of 300 horse 

 to the Royalists. No one else knows anything of the battle, for such it 

 is in the account. It is precise in the date, Friday, November 1 1 ; but 

 beyond doubt on the 1 1 th Rupert had withdrawn far from Kingston and 

 was preparing for his attack on Brentford. It is very possible that he 

 let some cavalry make a feint towards Kingston on that day, to deceive 

 the Parliamentarians as to his point of attack, and that an affair of out- 

 posts between them and the troops at Kingston was magnified into a 

 battle. After the day at Turnham Green Charles marched into Kings- 

 ton, whence Ramsay had marched out, and took up his abode for a 

 short time at Oatlands. But he could not safely maintain himself so 

 near his enemies' strength, and on November 18 withdrew to Oxford 

 for the winter. Sir John Denham, left at Farnham as badly provided 

 as Wither had been, proved as unfortunate as his brother poet and of 

 less resource. Sir William Waller appeared before the walls, and though 

 he had no artillery on December i blew in the gates with a petard, on 

 which Denham surrendered. Waller cleared the frontiers of Surrey, 

 Sussex and Hampshire of Royalist posts that winter, and took Chichester. 

 Thence on December 29 he sent orders for blowing up the wall of the 

 shell-keep on the mound at Farnham. The habitable castle was never- 

 theless kept as a Parliamentarian post for the next two years, and Waller 

 himself often had his headquarters there. 



On February 14, 1643, a Parliamentary ordinance raised 500 

 dragoons, mounted infantry, in Surrey, under the command of Nicholas 

 Stoughton. The South-Eastern Association was formed of Kent, Surrey, 

 Sussex and Hampshire, for the support of the Parliament, and Sir William 

 Waller took command of the troops belonging to it, both of the train- 

 bands and troops raised for permanent service. The sequestration of the 

 land of delinquents provided some of the necessary support, 2 and a Board 

 of sequestrators was nominated for Surrey, including such active Parlia- 

 mentarians as Sir Richard Onslow, Sir Ambrose Browne, Sir John 

 Evelyn, Sir Richard Parkhurst, Nicholas Stoughton, Mr. Goodwyn 

 member for Haslemere, George Evelyn member for Reigate ; but also 

 George Evelyn of Wotton and others, who cannot be considered certainly 

 as on that side. On April 14 the Commons ordered that commissioners 

 who refused to act should themselves be treated as delinquents, an order 

 which shows that there were some refusals. 3 Delinquents were all who 



1 Kings Pamphlets, 83, 10. The reference is incorrect in Manning and Bray and in Brayley. 

 The account is incorrect in the latter, and the original account is itself a manifest exaggeration. It inci- 

 dentally says that Rupert lost 240 men attacking Windsor. 



2 Journals of the Commons, March 7, 1643. 



3 The whole list is Sir Richard Onslow, Sir William Elliot, Sir Robert Parkhurst, knights ; 

 Nicholas Stoughton, George Evelyn (of Wotton), Henry Weston (of Ockham), Arthur Onslow, 

 esquires ; Sir Ambrose Browne, bart. ; Sir Antony Vincent, knight and bart. ; Sir John Dingley, 

 Sir Matthew Brand, knights ; Edward Sanders, Robert Holman, Robert Houghton, George Evelin (sic), 

 Francis Drake, Thomas Sands, George Myn, William Muschamp, esquires ; Sir John Holland, Sir 



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