Civil War Dispatches Report Royalist Moves and Parliaments Orders
The Commons note Royalist activity in Leicestershire and Derby with 2500 horse and dragoons, Sir William Brereton reinforcing Lancashire, Cromwell taking charge at Ely, forts near Kidlington, and a bridge and strongholds near Oxford. A Plymouth government marshall law ordinance is read, and paroles advise punishment for captured officers as examinations on Jersey prisoners proceed.