88 Parliamentary raids on Woodstock were repulsed with small losses in February 1646 , 89 but in March Col. Thomas Rainsborough and an army of 2,000 men arrived with the intention of blockading Oxford , which was cut off from
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and certainly by May 1645 , when after a two- or three-day siege the house was surrendered to Col. Thomas Rainsborough , who took over 50 prisoners. Canon balls found in the moat in the 19th century suggest a violent
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Berks .), railways, see East Gloucestershire ; Great W estern ; Witney Railway ; and under names of particular places Rainsborough , Thos., Ramsey , fam., Ramsey , see Northmoor Ranckell: Hen., Peter, Ravenor and Cuthbert, Raysaker, Thos., rector of
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city for the last time. It soon stood alone in England , except for Wallingford Castle . Woodstock surrendered to Rainsborough 103 at the end of April. On 8 May Sir William Compton , the heroic governor of Banbury ,
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London Transport; Staines and West Drayton ; Thames Valley ; Windsor , Staines and South Western Raines , Ric. de, Rainsborough (Raynesborough) , Col. Ric., Raleigh , Carew , Sir Walt ., n ; Ralph , Godfrey s. of, Ralph
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