loitered-for

Updated: August 11, 2026

The two houses, though they assumed the laurels of victory, felt alarm at the proximity of the royalists, and at occasional visits from parties of cavalry. In the meanwhile the royal army, leaving Oxford, loitered-for what reason is unknown-in the vicinity of Reading, and permitted Essex to march without molestation by the more eastern road to the capital.

Hilaire Belloc - The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans: to the Accession of King George the Fifth: Volume 8