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[1] Probably one of the Calverlys, a Cheshire family, one of whom was
a noted captain in the French wars.
"There tied I my horse in the middle of the wood, and myself I crept
along the dyke to see more and to hear somewhat; and no talk I heard
to tell of save at whiles a big knight talking to five or six others,
and saying somewhat, wherein came the words London and Nicholas
Bramber, and King Richard; but I saw that of men-at-arms and sergeants
there might be a hundred, and of bows not many, but of those outland
arbalests maybe a fifty; and so, what with one and another of servants
and tipstaves and lads, some three hundred, well armed, and the
men-at-arms of the best. Forsooth, my masters, there had I been but a
minute, ere the big knight broke off his talk, and cried out to the
music to blow up, 'And let us go look on these villeins,' said he; and
withal the men began to gather in a due and ordered company, and their
faces turned hitherward; forsooth, I got to my horse, and led him out
of the wood on the other side, and so to saddle and away along the
green roads; neither was I seen or chased.
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