The weather, and the hills, will fight far better for him than the Welsh, themselves, can do; and he has but to leave the army to wander about through the mountains and forests, as he did last time, to ensure that they must, ere long, fall back." At daybreak the next morning, they set out and rode to Welshpool.

This being a walled town, and the population almost entirely English, they could leave their horses here, in safety.

They first went to the governor's, and upon Oswald's explaining that they were the bearers of a letter for the king, and asking whether he could give them any information as to the direction they had best take, he shook his head.
"No news has come hither, for the last five days," he said.

"A herd of bullocks arrived here, three days since, and were to have been forwarded on to the army; but the Welsh are out in force, and every road beset.

Parties have come down from the hills overlooking us, and have fired several houses, that escaped when they last attacked us.