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 companion in all dangers, and was the > means of saving his life; for in an en- counter between the English and French young Monford being too hot in the pur- suit, was entrapped in an ambush, and though he bravely defended himself, ye he was beat from his horse, and left in the field for dead; where he had surely perished, had not his tender-hearted wife Margaret, upon hearing what had passed returned to the field, where, searching a mong the slain, by moon-light, she dis- covered him stripped and struggling for life, and by the help of a servant, brought him to a shepherd's cottage, where she dressed his wounds and recovered him to their mutual joy; though this joy was much abated when they found he had los his eyes; but love working in her heart this misfortune could not alter her affec- tion, but comforting him in the best mann- er she could, brought him back to Eng- land, now unfit for service, and they set- tled at Bethnal Green, in the county of Middlesex.