I and my squire, here, were on guard round your house, on the night after the Earl of Talbot took it.

We were at some distance from the other guards, when two figures rose from the bushes near us.

We pursued them and, coming up to them, found they were two ladies; and they at once avowed that they were your daughters.

My instructions were to watch and see that no Welshmen approached the house; and nought had been said to me of arresting any leaving it, seeing that it was not supposed that any were there.
"I war not with women.

Being myself from Northumbria, I have no enmity with your people.