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placed battlements on the mountain; and lo! when the sun was risen upon the earth, the captains of the host of Britain looked, and be- hold they saw the people of the provinces on the top of the mountain; and they were astonished out of measure!

4. And about the twelfth hour of the, day, Thomas, the captain of the host of Britain, sent an army to drive the people from off the mountain; and the number of men that he sentjwas about three thousand.

5. And the three thousand men passed over the mountain, and there was but a small space between the two armies : and the peo- ple of the provinces encamped on the moun- tain.

6. And they put the battle in array, army against army; and the battle waxed hot, and there fell of the men of Britain, one thou- sand and fifty-four. And there were slain of the people of the provinces, one hundred and thirty-nine.