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4 companion in all dangers, and was means of saving his life; for in an encounter between the English and French young Monford being too hot in the pursuit, was entrapped in an ambush, as though he bravely defended himself, yet he was beat from his horse, and left in the field for dead; where he had sure perished, had not his tender-hearted wife Margaret, upon hearing what had passed returned to the field, where, searching among the slain, by moon-light, she covered him stripped and straggling 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 lost his eyes; but love working in her heard this misfortune could not alter her affection, but comforting him in the best manner she could, brought him back to England, now unfit for service, and they settled at Bethnal Green, in the county Middlesex.