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 recess them; otherwise, if they were to ascend to them from below, that was giving advantage to the ravishers to cut them down like fearn, to be salvated of their blood. But the inhabitants were in such uproar, throwing to confusion and harrass on their apprehension, that all their beasts of pasture at the point of being seized with violence, and snatched away by these devouring plunderers, that the said plan was overthrown by them, proceeded to them from them from below, where they meet in conﬂict manner. The commander of the ravishers were ambitiously to obtain a sight of the said gallant gentleman joined the inhabitants, in consequently of his hearing that he was a man eminently for bravery, to have his hand imbrued in his blood. In prosecution of his atrocious search for that sanguinary intent, the ﬁrst man he interrogate for him, the same were the one he was in quest for. He asked at him, in proud expression, how he could have a view of the Major Roy of the Hens among his associal crowd? To which the Major’s reply, that he was the very same man, instantly facing him. Whereupon they drew the swords, had but short duel, when the Major cut oﬀ his antagonist’s head; which head run down with a steep