At first the total was put much higher; but, as soon as they retired, many fugitives made their way into Knighton; having slipped away in the darkness, when their villages were attacked, and concealed themselves in the woods, or among the rocks." "There has been fighting up in the north, too," Sir Edmund said.

"When I got to Ruthyn, I found that Lord Grey was away; but I talked over matters with his knights.

I was to have left on the morning of the fifth day after leaving here, but at night Glendower's men raided almost up to the gates of the castle.

Their plans were well laid; for, just at midnight, an alarm was given by a sentry on the walls.

Everyone ran to arms, the instant the warder's horn was sounded; but when I reached the top of the walls, fires were bursting out in twenty places.
It was not long before the knights rode out, with a hundred and fifty men-at-arms, but the Welsh were already gone.