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vinces fhould get between them and the flilps of the king of Britain.

2. Neverthelefs, a certain captain, with his fifty went out of the camp, and were made captives by the people of the provinces. They came from the river Rhine, and were called Waldickers.

3. Now, as fome of the men of Britain were foraging in the province of Jerfey, a certain captain of the people of the provin- ces came upon them, and the men of Brit- ain fled : howbeit, nine of them were flain.

4. And the captain, whofe fur-name was Dickinson^ and the men who followed after him gat much fpoil : for the men of Britain had left their carriages and their horfes, la- den with abundance of food and cloathing!

5. For they had robbed the threfhing floors of the hufbandmen, and had taken vafl: flores

of fwine's flefli, and flocks and herds in a- bundance!