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9. And the number of the [q^ of the torie« who were taken captive, was about eight hundred men.

10. And the flain and wounded were three hundred perfons, and of the people of the Provinces there were not many flain.

11. Howbeit, a valiant man whofe fur- name was Williams^ was flain; he was an e- nemy to the king, and fought to oppofe to the utmoft, the defigns of the chief coun- fellor of the realm of Britain.

12. And it was ^o^ that when the fed of the tories had fubmitted, the people of the Provinces hanged ten men of them by the neck, and they were flrangled with ropes made of the hempen weed, until they were dead.

ly. And when it wasmade known to Corn* ivallis that FergmonwdiS flain, he was troubled; and leaving a few men at Camden, he fled to Wennsborough. Then the people in the