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"That she refused all their articles, and was truely happy they had
refused hers, protesting shee had rather hazard her life than offer the
like again;--
"That though a woman, and a stranger, divorced from her friends, and
rob'd of her estate, she was ready to receive their utmost vyolence,
trusting in God both for protection and deliverance."
The next morning they discovered the enemy had been at work about a
musket-shot from the house, in a sloping ground, where they appeared to
be forming a breast-work and trench to protect the pioneers--multitudes
of country people being every day forced into this laborious service.
The situation of Lathom deserves some notice, it being admirably
calculated to resist any attack.
"It was encompassed by a strong wall, two yards thick; upon the walls
were nine towers, flanking each other, and in every tower six pieces of
ordnance, that played three one way and three another. Upon the tops of
these towers were placed the best and choicest marksmen, who usually
attended the Earl in his sports, as huntsmen, keepers, fowlers, and the
like, who continually kept watch, with screwed guns and long
fowling-pieces, to the great annoyance and loss of the enemy, especially
of their commanders, who were frequently killed in the trenches.
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