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From 1315 to the reign of Henry VIII, the English dominion was little more than a name as regards the greater part of Ireland. No one attained success, in the years after Bannockburn, neither Banaster, nor Llewelyn Bren, nor the Bristol commons nor Edward Bruce and his Irish allies.
And when he was on his way he looked behind him and saw the abbey a-fire: he caused incontinent twenty of them to be hanged that set the fire there, for he had commanded before on pain of death none to violate any church nor to bren any abbey. Then the king passed by the city of Beauvais without any assault giving, for because he would not trouble his people nor waste his artillery.
Then they began to make war, to slay people and to bren villages and to do many sore displeasures. George, earl of March and Dunbar: the text gives Mare, but there was at this time no earl of Mar. As at that time the earl of Northumberland and the other lords and knights of that country knew nothing of their coming.
Of much longer duration than the wars of Llewelyn Bren and Adam Banaster, were the formidable disturbances which raged for many years at Bristol. Fourteen Bristol magnates had long a preponderating influence in the government of the town. The commons bitterly resented their superiority and declared that every burgess should enjoy equal rights.
Sammy had by this time disposed of the clockwork rat, and was now standing, like Marius, among the ruins barking triumphantly. The banging on Mr. Downing's desk resembled thunder. It rose above all the other noises till in time they gave up the competition and died away. Mr. Downing shot out orders, threats, and penalties with the rapidity of a Bren gun. "Stone, sit down!
Later on, under Edward II. and Edward III., the rebellions were against the march lords, and the king was looked upon as a protector such as the rebellion of Llywelyn Bren against the Clares and Mortimers in Glamorgan in 1316. But the wilder spirits went to the French wars, and fought for both sides.
At night they patrolled the streets in lorries equipped with twin Bren guns. One report had it that they once fired on one of their own corporals, hitting him in the legs. Often we would see them in the morning marching back from their duties whistling or singing Sussex by the Sea.
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