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 ( 14 ) quickly returning, informed them that he sap them in the plain and that they were dscenia the hill. He hastened to lay his men in bush, and to prepare for their reception. they advanced, Wallace perceived that Fenwick, who had slain his father and brother, the person who commanded this party: his mourage was then inflamed, and he resolver to be reven- ged of Fenwick or to die in the attempt. The English having to pass through a narrow path. Wallace and his men waited thus ap- proach at this place, and having engaged, a severe conflict ensued. Of the English sure were an hundred and eighty, but Wallace had only fifty men. The former well armed on horseback: the latter on foot. Confiding, how- ever, in the strength of their arms, and the equity of their cause, they holdly encountered and gave death with every blow. At the : git of Fenwick, the soul of Wallace fired with in- dignation for the death of his father a brother, and, rushing upon him, cut his body in sunder with his trusty sword. The fill of their leader discouraged his men; about an hundred of them fell in the field, the remainder fled, and Wallace constrained the English waggoners to drive the baggage to a neighbouring wood. The horses, the armour, the baggage, with the money that they carried along with them, proved an acceptable present to Wallace, and not only supplied his present wants, but enab- led him to give large presents to some of his friends in the neighbourhood.