"You are an esquire, I hear, of my good friend Sir Henry Percy.

As you eat, I pray you tell me about this fight with the Welsh.

Sir Edmund himself was not in command, I hear." "No, my lord, he was away at the time, having ridden to Ruthyn, to hold council with Lord Grey." "Ah! I had not heard that he had been there," Earl Grey said.
"He arrived the day before the Welsh raid on your estate, sir.

Finding that you were absent, he intended to return home the next morning; but the matter delayed him, for a day, as he rode out with your knights to punish the marauders; who, however, made off before they could be overtaken." "When you see him, I pray you give him my thanks, for so doing; and now, tell us what happened." "Sir William Bastow can better inform you, sir, of what took place until we rode away from Knighton; where he remained, with Sir Philip Haverstone, to take command of the townspeople, in case the Welsh should arrive before strong aid should come." Sir William then related the measures that had been decided upon, and the steps taken to call out the levies; and how he and his brother knights had ridden to Knighton, with the intent to hinder, as far as possible, the Welsh advance; until the footmen could reach the town, to be followed, shortly afterwards, by the troops that would come in from the castles of Radnor.
Oswald then continued the story, and gave an account of the fight in the village, and the manner in which the Welsh were attacked, while retiring with their booty, and completely routed.
"Their tactics have in nowise changed, then," the earl said, "since the days of Griffith and Llewellyn.

Against a direct charge they were unable to stand; but they attacked, with fury, whenever there was an opportunity of fighting under circumstances when our weight and discipline gave us little advantage.