Compare 1577 edition: 1 This also is to be remembred, that where by rea|son of variance, which had chanced that yere betwixt the scholers of Oxford and the townesmen, a great number of the same scholers were withdrawen to Northampton and there studied.Scholers fight against the king. They had raised a banner to fight in defense of the towne against the king, and did more hurt to the assailants than anie other band; wherevpon the king threatned to hang them all, and so had he doone indéed, if by the persua|sion of his councell he had not altered his purpose, doubting to procure the hatred of their fréends, if the execution should haue béene so rigorouslie prosecuted against them: for there were amongst them manie yoong gentlemen of good houses and noble paren|tage. Thus was the towne of Northampton taken on a saturdaie being Passion sundaie euen, and the morrow after the daie of S. Ambrose which is the fift of Aprill. On the monday following, the king led his armie towards Leicester, where the burgesses recei|ued him into the towne at his comming thither. From thence he marched to Notingham, burning and wasting the houses and manors of the barons and other of his enimies, and speciallie those that be|longed to the earle of Leicester. Here he also gathe|red more people,Some write that Iohn de Balioll and Robert de Bruis, and Peter de Bruis, came to him here and not before Matt. West. The castell of Turburie de|faced. and so increased his power: in so|much that diuerse Noblemen, as Roger Clifford, Henrie Percie, Richard Gray, Philip Basset, Ri|chard Sward, and Hubert earle of Kent, doubting the lacke of power in their companions, reuolted in|continentlie to the kings side.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 He sent his sonne prince Edward into Darbi|shire and Staffordshire with a strong power, where he wasted the manours and possessions of Robert de Ferrers earle of Darbie, and namelie he ouerthrew and defaced the castell of Tutburie. Wheresoeuer the kings armie, or that which his sonne prince Edward led, chanced to come, there followed spoiling, burning and killing. The barons on the other side sate not still, for the lord Iohn Gifford, with others that were ap|pointed by the earle of Leicester to kéepe Killing|worth castell (which was furnished with all things necessarie, maruellouslie, and with such strange kind of engines as had not béene lightlie heard of nor seene in these parts) tooke by a policie the castell of Warwike, and William Manduit earle of War|wike,The castell of Warwike taken. with his wife and familie within it; and lea|ding them to Killingworth, there cõmitted them to prison. The cause was, for that they suspected him that he would take part with the king against them. The castell of Warwike they raced downe, least the kings people should take it for their refuge.The castell of Warwike raced. The Iewes are killed. In the Passion weeke the Iewes that inhabited in Lon|don being detected of treason, which they had deuised against the barons and citizens, were slaine almost all the whole number of them, and great riches found in their houses, which were taken and caried awaie by those that ransacked the same houses.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After Easter the erle of Leicester, hauing London at his commandement,Rochester besieged. went to Rochester and besie|ged that citie, but the capteine thereof Iohn earle of Warren did manfullie resist the enimies; till the king aduertised thereof, with the power of the mar|shes of the north parts and other came and remooued the siege. N. Triue [...]. Matth. West. This doone, he left a conuenient garrison within the citie to defend it, and comming to Tun|bridge, wan the castell, and taking the countesse of Glocester that was within it, permitted hir to de|part. This doone, he repaired to the sea side towards France, to staie there till his brethren, Geffrey and Guie, the sonnes of the earle of Marsh should arriue with some band of souldiers,The kings halfe brethren come out of France to his aid. The king in|campeth at Lewes. for whom he had now sent and reuoked into the realme, being latelie before banished by the Nobles, as before yée haue heard. They shortlie after landed, wherevpon the king ha|uing his power increased, came to Lewes, and pight downe his field not farre from that towne.