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 ( 21 ) among the Scots, which galled them sore; but Wallace perceiving this changed the position of his men, and employed his whole prudence and strength to save them. And convinced that they were more dextrous at the 'sword, or spear, he was cages to come to a close en- gagement, but was afraid of being overpowered with superior numbers. length one of the Lancashire bowmen, who had frequently eyed Wallace at an open, where he came to observe the motions of the enemy, took his arm, struck him through a collar of steel, upon the left side of the neck, and slightly wounded him.-- Astonished and enraged, Wallace flew after him, severed his head from his body, and with his men fell keen upon the English with swords and spears, because their arrows were exhausted. Wallace, with his men, thienned the ranks of the English wherever they approached; but William Lorn, a relation of Butler, who had been slain coming with a reinforcement of three hundred men, Wallace addressed his men, saying, that the number of the Southrens was so ve, and were always increasing, that their efforts would prove fruitless, unless they cut off the chiefs. Instantly, therefore, they forced their way through the opposing, ranks, in quest of the leaders. Wallace encountered Sir John. who having taken shelter behind a large tree, he struck a branch and it fell upon Butler, and laid him, an thierrund, Lorn soon, also felt the teacht of word; and the shoot reverberating through the