The streams and pools were full of fish: the stately heron frequented the meres; and on the craggy heights built the kite, the falcon, and the kingly eagle.
There were eight watchers by the beacon.

Two stood apart from the others, looking to the right and the left of the hill.

Both were armed with swords and arquebuses, and wore steel caps and coats of buff.

Their sleeves were embroidered with the five wounds of Christ, encircling the name of Jesus--the badge of the Pilgrimage of Grace.

Between them, on the verge of the mountain, was planted a great banner, displaying a silver cross, the chalice, and the Host, together with an ecclesiastical figure, but wearing a helmet instead of a mitre, and holding a sword in place of a crosier, with the unoccupied hand pointing to the two towers of a monastic structure, as if to intimate that he was armed for its defence.