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dom, had projcded the enterprife^ and had the diredion of the undertaking.

14. And the armour-bearer of Wayne^ was promoted to be a captain : but the people fpared the garrifon, and did not put them to death, as the men of Britain had done.

15. And when tidings came to Henry, how that the ftrong hold was taken, he gathered together an army and came outto takeitagain, from the people of the Provinces.

1 5. But when George heard thereof, he thought it not convenient to defend the hold, inafinuch, as it would coft the lives of many men, and the hold was not fo defirable a pof- fefiion as to make it worth the life of one of the people.

17. So the people were commanded to de- part from thence, after they had deftroyed the works, and removed the implements of war, and all the fluff that was therein.

18, And Henry, who was the king's chief captain, took the hold on the third day after