We have trouble with their men, who raid our homesteads now and then." At that a big man with a yellow moustache and long curling hair rose from among the franklins and said loudly, in a voice which was neither like that of a Briton nor a Saxon at all: "Let me get a nearer look at him, and I will soon tell you if he is what he claimed to be." And with no more ceremony he came to where I and the two house-carles yet stood, and looked and laughed a little to himself as he did so.
"He is Morgan the prince, right enough," he said.

"And I can tell you all the trouble.

Your sheriff hung his brother, Dewi, three months since for cattle lifting and herdsman slaying on this side Parrett River, somewhere by Puriton, where no Welshman should be.

I helped hunt the knaves at the time.

The sheriff took him for a common outlaw like his comrades, and it was in my mind that there would be trouble.