Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?

Context:

The air is shrewd , and I would not ye took cold upon these scratches . ''<br>He made a sign with his hand ; it was passed down the nave by obsequious servants , who waited there upon his smallest gesture .<br>Instantly , without the church , a tucket sounded shrill , and through the open portal archers and men-at-arms , uniformly arrayed in the colours and wearing the badge of Lord Risingham , began to file into the church , took Dick and Lawless from those who still detained them , and , closing their files about the prisoners , marched forth again and disappeared .

Hypothesis: Lord Risingham needed a loud voice to command his servants.
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