 Complete the following phrase:  A City Brigade marched with the Earl of Essex through Royalist-held territory to relieve the Siege of Gloucester and distinguished itself at the subsequent First Battle of Newbury 20 September 1643. Thereafter, brigades of London troops participated in the Siege of Basing House and the battles of Alton 13 December 1643, Cheriton 29 March 1644 and Cropredy Bridge 29 June 1644. However, the men were usually unwilling to serve longer than their first paid month, and later brigades suffered from desertion: sometimes whole regiments set up a cry of Home, Home! The brigade that marched with Essex into Cornwall found itself taken prisoner or locked up in besieged garrisons after the disastrous 