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falary in cafe of war.* About feven years 

 after this, as fome of the foldiers of the 

 garrifon were attempting, with the affif- 

 tance of the country people, to open a 

 road through an adjoining foreft, a deep 

 and exteniive cover, of many miles, which 

 had long afforded the Welfh a fecure re- 

 treat ; from whence iffuing, they frequently 

 murdered and plundered travellers through 

 the country ; they were on a fudden attacked 

 by a body of the natives, who with great 

 {laughter obliged them to feek refuge in 

 the cattle. The party then inverted, and 

 laid regular fiege to it, upon which Herbert 

 de Burgh, alarmed at his /ituation, fent to 

 Henry for fuccour, who immediately in 

 perfon, brought an army to his aid, and the 



* Matt. Paris, p. 263. Matt. Weftm. p. III. 

 Holinfhed's Chronicle, II. 203. Carte's Hiftory, I. 

 466. 



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