Lady Exeter, on her braw Spanish barbwe ken whose gift it iswas the only one able to keep with us; and it was her leddyship's ain peregrine falcon that checked the fleeing carle at last.

On the day before the battle took place, Surrey, that "auld crooked carle," as James called him, marched his men northward across the Till and encamped for the night near Barmoor Wood.

Now he who knows old Christmas, He knows a carle of worth; For he is as good a fellow As any upon earth.

Absalon marshalled his eighteen house-carles and such of the country-folk as he could, and fell upon the Wends, routing them utterly.

It was therefore resolved to massacre the Hus-carles, as they were called, and their families, throughout England.