Crossword-Solution: WELSHPOOL 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Shortly afterwards, the suburbs of Welshpool were burnt by him, to the great loss of the Earl of Powys; whose annoyance was all the greater, since most of his own tenants were under arms, with Glendower.

But from Welshpool they heard, next day, that there had been several skirmishes with the Welsh, and that heavy rains had made the roads all but impassable.

The weather, and the hills, will fight far better for him than the Welsh, themselves, can do; and he has but to leave the army to wander about through the mountains and forests, as he did last time, to ensure that they must, ere long, fall back." At daybreak the next morning, they set out and rode to Welshpool.

Come you from the king's army, or from the north?" "We left Welshpool before daybreak," Oswald said, "and have travelled through the forest." "Then you must be as bold as you are tall, sirs, for the woods are full of these wild Welsh." "Of that we are aware, sir, and we had some difficulty in making our way through them, unobserved.

Knowing that he could only hope to reach you on foot, he and his man-at-arms left their horses at Welshpool; and have made their way through the woods on foot, not without adventure, having lost their way in the storm, and having slept in the wood for two days, and killed five Welshmen, scarcely escaping a crowd of others as they came in." "A very gallant deed, sir," the king said to Oswald, as the latter bent upon one knee and handed the letter to him.