A sowling is 160 acres, Cheshire measure, equal to 335,7 statute acres.

[H]e [the witness Thomas Chadwick] deposed, That he had known [William] Bretah upwards of two years; […] that he had perſuaded the witneſs to join the rebels before he had any inclination to do it; that proviſions being ſcarce at Carliſle, Bretah would have some ſauſages from the witneſs, which he not caring to part with, they thereupon fought; but that the witneſs never promiſed to do him ill, and would not ſwear away any man's life for a ſauſage.

All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag,[…].

A lingersome last glance downtrack for the self-absented Major.