I have said that the road down which Long Gregory came with his tidings went north; and that was its general direction; but its first reach was nearly east, so that the low sun was not in the eyes of any of us, and where Will Green took his stand, and I with him, it was nearly at our backs.
[1] Probably one of the Calverlys, a Cheshire family, one of whom was a noted captain in the French wars..