What is "agaynst"

Usage examples of "agaynst".

Towse, his wife, since his death tolde me that her husband and she living at Windsor Castle, where he had an office that Sumer that ye Duke of Buckingham was killed, tolde her that very day that the Duke was sett upon by ye mutinous Mariners att Portesmouth, saying then that ye next attempt agaynst him would be his Death, which accordingly happened.

And dyd fyghte agaynst them and dyd flinge them backe beinge iv or v thowsand souldiers.