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"We have no space for them, and if we hold our own we shall have horses and to spare when this day's work is done. Nay, keep yours, my fair sirs, for we may have work for them. Aylward, Johnston, let your men form a harrow on either side of the ridge. Sir Oliver and you, my Lord Angus, I give you the right wing, and the left to you, Sir Simon, and to you, Sir Richard Causton.
The story of his relationship with Sophia Causton, Grace Murray, Sarah Ryan, and last, but not least, the widow Vazeille, his termagant wife, need not here be repeated. In the case of any other man scandal would often have been busy; but Wesley was above suspicion. His conduct was put down to the right cause viz. a perfect guilelessness and simplicity of nature.
In the course of the day, he looked again into the concerns of the store, and despatched some other affairs of consequence. In the evening he sent for Mr. Causton, when, "in a very mild manner, and gentler terms than could be expected, upon such a provocation, he reprehended him for the freedom he had taken with his name, and advised him to use no delays or shifts in making up his accounts."
"Yet," said Sir Richard Causton, "we cannot for the honor of England go back without a blow struck." "Nor for the honor of Scotland either," cried the Earl of Angus. "By Saint Andrew! I wish that I may never set eyes upon the water of Leith again, if I pluck my horse's bridle ere I have seen this camp of theirs."
Sir Nigel had with him Sir William Felton, Sir Oliver Buttesthorn, stout old Sir Simon Burley, the Scotch knight-errant, the Earl of Angus, and Sir Richard Causton, all accounted among the bravest knights in the army, together with sixty veteran men-at-arms, and three hundred and twenty archers.
Augustine Oglethorpe makes arrangements for defence Treason in the Camp Mutiny, and personal assault on the General, Oglethorpe visits Savannah Troubles there Causton, the store-keeper, displaced Oglethorpe holds a conference with a deputation of Indians Town-meeting called, and endeavors used to quiet discontents Goes back to Frederica, but obliged to renew his visit to Savannah,
For a moment a wild hope came upon them that perhaps the prince had moved more swiftly than had been planned, that he had crossed the Ebro, and that this was his vanguard sweeping to the attack. "Surely I see the red pile of Chandos at the head of yonder squadron!" cried Sir Richard Causton, shading his eyes with his hand.
"It is a great body of horse," said Sir William Felton, "and they are riding very swiftly hitherwards." "Yet they must be from the prince's army," remarked Sir Richard Causton, "for they come from the north."
Causton, wife of Thomas Causton, Esq., chief magistrate of the place, had been a pupil to him to learn French, was a professed convert to his ministry, and become a member of the Church. Her beauty, accomplishments, and manners, were fascinating; and she appears, by some coquettish advances, to have won his affections.
Oglethorpe visits Savannah Troubles there Causton, the store-keeper, displaced Oglethorpe holds a conference with a deputation of Indians Town-meeting called, and endeavors used to quiet discontents Goes back to Frederica, but obliged to renew his visit to Savannah.
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