Excerpt from Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, Vol. 2 of 4: With Elucidations We have not got our Guns and Ammunition from vvallingford as yet; but, however, we have scraped up a few, which stand us in very good stead. Last night, we got two little guns planted, which, in Twenty-four hours, will take away their Mills; and then, as Poyer himself confesses, they are all undone. We made an attempt to storm him, about ten days since; but our ladders were too short, and the breach so as men could not get over. We lost a few men but I am confident the Enemy lost more. Captain Flower, of Colonel Dean's Regiment, was wounded and Major Grigg's Lieutenant and Ensign slain; Captain Burges lies wounded, and very sick. I question not, but within a fortnight we shall have the Town and' Poyer hath engaged himself to the Officers of the Town, Not to keep the Castle longer than the Town can hold out. Neither indeed can he; for we can take away his water in two days, by beating down a staircase, which goes into a cellar where he hath a Well. They allow the men half-a-pound of beef, and as much bread a-day; but it is almost spent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.