It seems that they had laid an ambuscade round every village and, on the signal being given, fell at once upon the sleeping inhabitants, put all to the sword, fired the houses; and in ten minutes from the first alarm made off, driving horses, cattle, and sheep before them.
"I was with the party, and we rode hard and fast, but we came up with none of them.

Each party must have gone its own way, striking off into the hills.

As soon as we returned to the castle I started, with my four men-at-arms, and we have lost no time on the road; especially after the rumour reached us that there had been a Welsh raid here, also.
"Now, Sir John Burgon, will you give me an account of the doings of your party ?" The knight reported their proceedings, after leaving Ludlow, and concluded: "It is like that the story would not have so run, Sir Edmund, had it not been for the bravery shown by the northern men, under the young squire Oswald and his captain, Alwyn.

So furiously did the Welsh assail us, in rear, that we should have suffered heavily, indeed, even if we had not met with a grave disaster; had it not been that this band covered our rear, while we charged forward, fighting so stoutly that the spot where they posted themselves was thickly covered with dead.

I found time to look round, now and then, for they made but a poor resistance to our advance.