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driven along the road to Barber's Bridge, where they were met 

 by fresh troops and cut to pieces ; that their "trenchnients " 

 were to be seen when he was a boy, and he believed were still 

 to be seen in the wood, on each side of the Newent road, near 

 the three mile stone on the " point of the hill ": that he lived 

 for many years at Highnam, and afterwards with his father at 

 a house in Highleadon, known as the Camp House, now the 

 property of Mr, ElUs, of Minsterworth, and has often heard 

 that soldiers formerly "camped" round that house at night, 

 and were posted at the brook by day, and that the brook was 

 called Red Brook, as it still is at and below the bridge, because 

 it ran red with the blood of the slain. As Samuel Colwall 

 is still living close at hand, he will be able to confirm these 

 statements if seen at the alms houses, but he is not able to 

 get far away from home. In the material facts he was confirmed 

 by Smith who lived and worked at Highnam when a boy, and 

 remembers when the turnpike road was diverted at the Cross 

 Hands about 40 years ago, that many bones and buttons and 

 other relics were discovered in the excavations. There was 

 now very little difficulty in connecting these remains with the 

 Welsh army under Lord Heebekt, which was encamped at 

 Highnam, and defeated and captured there by the combined 

 forces of Massey and Sir William Waller, on the 24th 

 March, 1643. Akchdeacon Fearnet in his manuscript in the 

 Bodleian Library, at Oxford, relates a conversation he had in 

 1717, mth a Welshman who had served in this army as a boy, 

 and Samuel Taylor's father, who died at a very advanced age, 

 might have been living at that time. When the bones were 

 found in cutting down the hill to form the Canal embankment, 

 but little more than 150 years had elapsed since the surrender 

 of the Welsh army, and men of the age of Samuel Taylor at 

 his death, and even men no older than my informants in the 

 alms houses now may well have related in 1795 the details 

 received by them from eye witnesses of the events of March 24th, 

 1643. The fate of this Welsh army is locally recorded in 

 " Corbett's Military Government," and it is officially recorded 

 in Sir William Waller's letter to both Houses of Parliament, 

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