Compare 1577 edition: 1 The capteines and men of warre, whom the king had left at Tunbridge, immediatlie vpon the agrée|ment concluded betwixt the king and the barons, were commanded by the K. to depart, Matth. West. & repaire eue|rie man to his home; but they fearing the malice of their enimies, would not breake in sunder, but kéep|ing togither, went strait to Bristowe, and there re|mained, till the lord Edward the kings sonne was escaped out of captiuitie. But this is to be remem|bred, that before their departure from Tunbridge, when by report of William de Saie, N. Triuet. who escaping from the battell at Lewes, was come thither, they vnderstood how the matter had passed on both sides, and that the Londoners being chased out of the field, were lodged at Croidon,The Londo|ners spoiled at Croidon. about the euening tide they came thither, and assailing them in their lodgings, slue manie, and wan a great spoile. The earle of Leicester and the barons hauing the rule of the king and realme in their hands, sought to oppresse all such as they knew to be against them, and not to like of their procéedings; namelie, the northerne lords, and those of the marshes of Wales, as the lord Morti|mer and others: but waxing herewith wilfull, they vsed things with small discretion, which at length brought them to confusion. For the foure sonnes of the earle of Leicester, Henrie, Guie, Simon, and an other Henrie, which had serued right worthilie indéed on the daie of the battell, began to waxe so proud, that in comparison of themselues, they despised all others.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The lords of the marshes of Wales, as Roger de Mortimer, Iames de Audelie, Roger de Clifford, Roger de Leiborne, Matt. West. Haimon le Strange, Hugh Turberuile, and other that had escaped from the bat|tell at Lewes, began to make against them that had thus vsurped the rule of the land, vnder colour of hauing the king in their hands. The earle of Leice|ster aduertised hereof, ioined in league with Leolin prince of Wales, and comming with the king into those parts, entered into the castell of Hereford, into the which he remooued the lord Edward from Do|uer, where he was first kept in ward, after he had yéelded himselfe at Lewes. After this, the earle of Leicester recouered the castell of Haie, and wasting the lands and manours of the lord Mortimer, con|streined Hugh Mortimer to yéeld himselfe, so that his castell called Richar, and other his possessions, were committed to the kéeping of the lord Iohn Fitz Iohn.The earle of Darbie com|meth to Che|ster with 20 thousand men. Robert de Ferrers earle of Darbie, with a great puissance of horssemen and footmen came to Chester, in fauour of the earle of Leicester, against whome although William de Cousche, and Dauid brother to the prince of Wales, taking the contrarie part with the lord Iames Audelie and o|ther, came to incounter, yet they durst not abide him, but fled, and lost an hundred of their men.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane time, the earle of Leicester procée|ding in his businesse, wan the castell of Ludlow, and after marching towards Montgomerie, whither the lords Roger de Mortimer, and Iames Audelie were withdrawne, he constreined them at length to a feigned agreement, so that they gaue hostages,The lords Mortimer and Audeli [...] banished. pro|mising to come to the next parlement that was ap|pointed to be holden, where they were banished the land for a twelue moneths, and all the castels on the marshes, in manner from Bristow to Chester, were deliuered to the earle. After this (as by Nicholas Triuet it appeareth) there was a great assemblie of men of warre made out of all parts of the realme, to resist such strangers as the quéene (remaining in the parts beyond the seas) had got togither, meaning to send them into England to aid the king against the barons, and for that purpose had caused a great number of ships to be brought into the hauen of Dam. But now that the king was in the barons hands,An armie lod|ged on Bar|ham-downe. and that such a multitude of horssemen and footmen were assembled on Barham-downe (as a man would not haue thought had béene possible to haue found within the whole relme) to resist the land|ing of those strangers, the said strangers were sent home againe, without hauing doone anie pleasure to the quéene, other than spent hir monie. Matth. West. The king held his Christmas at Woodstoke; and the earle of Leice|ster, who séemed then to rule the whole realme, Chr. Dunstab. kept his Christmasse at Killingworth.