Two or three hours after the return of the force to Ludlow, Sir Edmund Mortimer returned, having ridden almost without a halt, since be received the news of the Welsh incursion.

His knights met him in the courtyard.
"Well, my friends, I hear you have sent the Welsh back again, as fast as they came." "We cannot say that, Sir Edmund," Sir John Wyncliffe replied.

"Sir John Burgon went out, with ninety horse; and, coming upon a party of five or six hundred of them, killed half their number, and put the rest to flight; but their main body left of their own free will, and without any urging.

'Tis a pity that they were so hurried, for in another twenty-four hours we should have had some four thousand men on the march against them, besides those who first went on." "Have they done much damage ?" "There is scarce a house left standing, between the hills on this side of Llanidloes, and Knighton.

From what we can gather, they must have slain three or four hundred, at least.