Respectable pillars
I forgot to complete the story of Sir Adam Gurdon, the Montfortian outlaw who became a loyal follower of Edward I, so will do it now.
When Adam fled the West Country in 1266, and went into Cambridge and then Hampshire, he left his peasant army behind. The followers he took with him were eighty horsemen or 'free lances', probably his personal retinue.
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