"Indeed, I see not how it is to be done.
Beyond the fact that the king intended to march west, I know nothing whatever of his intentions, or of the exact road he was likely to take.
His orders were strict, that we were to keep our forces well in hand; and to send the letter forward would need two hundred men, at least, as an escort.

It places me in an awkward position, indeed." "If it so please you, Sir Edmund," said Oswald, who was one of the group standing round, when the messenger handed the letter to Mortimer; "I will endeavour to carry the despatch for you.

Methinks that, while fifty men would not succeed in getting through to the army, two might, perchance, manage to do so.

I shall, of course, ride first to Shrewsbury, through which the king passed; and so follow up the course he took.

There should be no great difficulty in doing that, for the march of so great a body of men must have left many traces behind.