About ten at night
In the meantime his Majesty , after a short stay at Bristol , makes back again towards Oxford with a part of the foot and all the horse . At Cirencester we had a brush again with Essex ; that town owed us a shrewd turn for having handled them coarsely enough before , when Prince Rupert seized the county magazine . I happened to be in the town that night with Sir Nicholas Crisp , whose regiment of horse quartered there with Colonel Spencer and some foot ; my own regiment was gone before to Oxford . About ten at night , a party of Essex 's men beat up our quarters by surprise , just as we had served them before . They fell in with us , just as people were going to bed , and having beaten the out-guards , were gotten into the middle of the town before our men could get on horseback . Sir Nicholas Crisp , hearing the alarm , gets up , and with some of his clothes on , and some off , comes into my chamber . `` We are all undone , '' says he , `` the Roundheads are upon us . ''