[1] Strange sights. Matth. Paris. ¶ About the same time woonderfull strange sights were séene. In the northparts of England, not farre from the abbie of Ro [...]h o [...] Rupie, there appeared com|ming foorth of the earth companies of armed men [...] horssebacke, with speare, shield, sword, and baners dis|plaied, in sundrie formes and shapes, riding in order of bat [...]ell, and incountering togither: and this sight was seene sundrie daies ech after other. Sometime they séemed to ioine as it had béene in battell, and fought sore; and sometime they appeared to iust and breake staues, as it had béene at some triumphant iusts of tornie. The people of the countrie beheld them a farre off, with great woonder: for the thing shewed so liuelie, that now and then they might see them come with their emptie horsses sore wounded and hurt: and then men likewise mangled and blée|ding, that pitie it was to see them. And that which sée|med more strange and to be most maruelled at, the prints of their féet appeared in the ground, and the grasse troden downe in places where they had beene séene. The like sight was also séene more apparent|lie in Ireland, and in the parts thereabout.