Good News from OXFORD (Of the TREATY) For the Surrender thereof: And how they are packing up to march away on Thursday next, June 18. 1646. WITH The Surrender of Sherburne-house already agreed. ALSO The particulars of the seven Visions seen at Gravenhage the 31. of May last; Translated out of the Dutch Copies. Printed by the Original Papers, and published according to Order. LONDON, Printed by Jane Coe, 1646. AN Abstract of the Letters From the leaguer before OXFORD. THE wonderful works of GOD have and do still appear for that godly and valiant Army with Sir Thomas Fairfax, in the so fare reducing of this Kingdom to peace, in which God hath made his Excellency a glorious Instrument. And now since his Excellency came before Oxford, that work hath been carried on with very great discretion; and although we have still gone on with the work in preparing to storm, and approaches made very near to the enemy in several places about the City, yet the Treaty hath still gone on, and the Enemy been every day more and more daunted and discouraged from resisting us, though the most pernicious nest in the Kingdom, and a place the most impregnable of any, and the persons desperate. We have now gone through divers of the Articles, and (though with much difficulty) come near to the end; but to God is all the praise to be given for this great work, for it could not be any ways expected from the arm of flesh, especially from such a poor despised Army as that was at the first: but to the Lord be the glory of his own works. For the business of the Treaty for the surrender of Oxford, i t is certified thus: viz. That the Commissioners sat late on Saturday, June 13, and have overcome all difficulties in the Treaty, there being only circumstantial things to be concluded on, which at the next meeting without peradventure will be finished: so that by Thursday next it is conceived they will march out of Oxford; they are already packing up in Oxford in preparation towards their march. His Excellency upon a second humble Petition from Mistress Chamberlain of Sherburne hath accepted of the surrender of Sherburne house in Oxfordshire; The General upon her first Petition advised her to address herself to the Parliament, which it seems she did; but by reason of other great affairs, obtained no positive Answer. Although the House hath been a Garrison, yet neither at our first coming to Oxford this time twelvemonth, nor all this while we have been here hath any ways annoyed our Forces, but on the contrary hath contributed in provisions to the maintenance of those Forces employed about Wallingford, as other parts have done. This house being kept with some men and Arms in it by Master Chamberlain, prevented the making of the same an active Gartison for the King, which would much have annoyed Henly and those parts: And have only stood upon their Guards to defend themselves from Plunder, and never took any of the Parliaments Soldiers Prisoners, nor offered violence unto them, nor raised Contribution of the Country. If this be the Gaze, (as they allege it to be) it is different from any other in the Kingdom. The Enemy made a sally out of Farringdon with Clubs, but were beaten in, two of their Horses killed, and three men. A sight seen in Gravenhage the 31. of May 1646. In the light of midday between 12. and 1. of the Clock: I. Happened a round plate about the bigness of a Table-board, like grey paper without which appeared a Lion, and a Dragon, which fought very fiercly one against another, which Dragon also spat fire; then was overcome by the Lion, and so vanished, but the Lion appeared in sight. II. There appeared by the Lion, a multitude of Soldiers; as well Foot as Horse, and before each Troop a Trumpeter, which men might perfectly see them put their Trumpets to their mouths, and then see troops begin to fight one against another, that men knew not who had the better, and the people vanished, but the Lion and the Dragon appear still in sight. III. There appeared then a King with 3. Crowns upon his head, sitting upon a Kingly throne, with people about his Throne, and vanished strait, than the Lion and the Dragon apepeared in sight. FOUR There appeared a multitude of men's heads, with a great head under them, and a multitude of bodies without heads, the which also vanished then the Lion and the Dragon remain as before standing in sight V There appeared also a man fitting upon a horse who kills himself and fallsbackward. VI There also appeared a mighty Fleet of Ships in the South-west, and drive to the Southeast by the Lion and the Dragon, when the fight was with multitudes of men upon the Ships, and men saw them presently, to hold the Sails, and so drive one by another, than they appeared all to stand, and the Lion and the Dragon destroy one another, and fall backward, and then vanished. VII. Then there remains a great Cloud, which before was not, and so drove forward away with the wind. FINIS.