The Royalist Banbury Castle garrison under Colonel William Compton conducted aggressive sorties throughout 1644 against Parliamentary forces investing the town. The sorties ranged widely into the surrounding Oxfordshire countryside and clashed repeatedly with Parliamentary cavalry from Warwick and Northampton sent to tighten the blockade.
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