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They wer not preaching, and had got away all there women and shildring. They consisted of four battaillons of foot, and all well armed with fusils and pitchforks, and three squadrons of horse.
I scarce knew in what manner to receive them; but found to draw ourselves in a close line was the only way; so we formed in a moment; but, that we might not have too much interval, I ordered, that only every other man should fire; and that the others, who had not fired, should stand ready to give them a second volley immediately, if they continued to advance upon us; and that then those who had fired at first, should not pretend to load their fusils again, but stand ready, with every one a pistol, for we were all armed with a fusil and a pair of pistols each man; so we were, by this method, able to fire six vollies, half of us at a time; however, at present we had no necessity; for, upon firing the first volley, the enemy made a full stop, being terrified, as well with the noise as with the fire; four of them being shot in the head, dropped; several others were wounded, and went bleeding off, as we could see by the snow.
Beginning again at the south-west end of the nave the arms are: 17, 18. Five fusils in fess Old Percy. 19. Lion rampant Mowbray. 20. Lion rampant Percy. 21, 22. Blank shields. 23. Two bars, in chief, three roundels Wake. 24. A fess, in chief, three roundels Colville. 25. On a bend, three cross crosslets Manley. 26, 27. A bend Manley. 28. A fess dancette Vavasour. 29. Three chevronelles Clare. 30.
The dazzle of the sun, pouring over the crest, made the hollow a twinkling obscurity; and the cloth was just in keeping with the dead stuff around. The three broad men, with heavy fusils cocked, came up from the sea mouth of the Dike, steadily panting, and running steadily with a long-enduring stride.
Now that they had a leader to redress their wrongs, in many an humble cabin men seized their fusils, swords, and halberds, and waited for him to call them to his side. They expected him to end corruption and favoritism in the government, to lower taxes, to correct private injustices, to give them a really representative Assembly. Berkeley was astonished.
On the walls hung all manner of musketoons, fusils, and the like, with drawings of mortars and field and siege artillery, with specimens of horses' bits and saddles and stirrups, and everything relating to the equipment of a soldier. There were a plenty of maps besides.
Probably, if we increase the former total and diminish the latter, we shall get nearer the mark; but it is impossible to do more than conjecture. Sharpe, in the fragment printed by Napier, rates Hamilton's force at six hundred. Claverhouse's own estimate was "four battalions of foot, and all well armed with fusils and pitchforks, and three squadrons of horse."
Barry of ten, an orle of martlets Valence. 5. A bend, cottised, between six lions rampant Bohun. 6. A fess, between six cross crosslets Beauchamp. 7. Quarterly, in the first quarter a mullet Vere. 8. A cross moliné Paganel. 9. Barry of ten, three chaplets Greystock. 10. Billetté, a lion rampant Bulmer. 11, 12, 13 and 14. Three water bougets Roos. 15, 16. Five fusils in fess Old Percy.
We got the boat soon to the shore; but our men were in too much haste; for being come to the shore, they plunged into the water to get to the boat with all the expedition they could, being pursued by between three and four hundred men. Our men were but nine in all, and only five of them had fusils with them; the rest, indeed, had pistols and swords, but they were of small use to them.
And in and out at the big gate went the trappers sturdy, rough-necked, hirsute fellows in buckskins, with Northwest fusils on their shoulders; lean-bodied, capable fellows, with souls as lean as their bodies, survivors of long hard trails, men who could go far and eat little and never give up. I was very fond of that sort of man. Little by little the picture grew.
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