I lead my own village, but there are the men of a score of villages lying on these hills.

But I will summon all the chiefs to a council now." The priest called half a dozen of the peasants to him, and dispatched them with orders to bring all the other leaders to take part in a council with an English officer who had arrived from the great Earl of Peterborough.
In half an hour some twenty men were assembled in a little hollow on the hillside, where they were sheltered from the fire of the French.

Four or five of these were priests.

There were two or three innkeepers.

The remainder were small landed proprietors.