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 long as to make her heirs impatient, is perhaps not now known. The younger son, called, or , a man of great strength who was then in , either for safety, or for education, dreamed of recovering his inheritance; and getting some adventurers together, which, in those unsettled times, was not hard to do, invaded. He was driven away, but was not discouraged, and collecting new followers, in three years came again with fifty men. In his way he stopped at in, where his uncle was prisoner to , and was then with his enemies in a tent. took with him only one servant, whom he ordered to stay at the outside; and where he should see the tent pressed outwards, to strike with his dirk, it being the intention of, as any man provoked him, to lay hands upon him, and push him back. He entered the tent alone, with his in his hand, and struck such terror