sentences:  While in Reading, Berkshire, Charles decided that the peace talks were inconclusive and that if he advanced on London it would place him in a better negotiating position.So on 11 November he moved his army closer to London by encamping at Colnbrook at the edge of Middlesex and to put further pressure on the Parliamentarians he ordered Prince Rupert to take Brentford midway across the small county.On earlier reaching London the Earl of Essex had not been idle and had rapidly positioned men on the western approaches to London.