'He confided in me, believing me to be one of the Duke of Beaufort's household.

As to the horse, one party pursued us on Salisbury Plain with bloodhounds, and another attacked us not twenty miles from here and lost a score of troopers and a cornet.' 'We heard something of the brush,' said the King.

'It was bravely done.
But if these men are so close we have no great time for preparation.' 'Their foot cannot be here before a week,' said the Mayor.

'By that time we might be behind the walls of Bristol.' 'There is one point which might be urged,' observed Wade the lawyer.

'We have, as your Majesty most truly says, met with heavy discouragement in the fact that no noblemen and few commoners of repute have declared for us.