Note 465 — Chapter XV
Reading edition
See Oxoniana, iv. 188; and copy of the woodcut in Knight's Old England.
The Parliamentarians made a great mistake in not planting a garrison at Oxford, as they might have easily done when the war broke out.—See Whitelocke's Memorials, 63. The shrewd lawyer was not destitute of military insight, and justly blames Lord Say, who was opposed to the Parliament's taking possession of the city, because of the "improbability, in his opinion, that the King would settle there."