Surely the youth hath good in his heart, and will become a seat of grace and a vessel of the Spirit, though at present he be entangled in the net of worldly follies and carnal vanities.' 'It is to be hoped so,' quoth Saxon devoutly.

'And what else can you tell us of the revolt, worthy sir ?' 'Very little, save that the peasants have flocked in in such numbers that many have had to be turned away for want of arms.

Every tithing-man in Somersetshire is searching for axes and scythes.

There is not a blacksmith but is at his forge from morn to night at work upon pike-heads.

There are six thousand men of a sort in the camp, but not one in five carries a musket.