Compare 1577 edition: 1 Polydor. ¶ Some write, that the earle of Leicester placed king Henrie in the front of his battell, whom he had there with him as captiue, and had arraied him in his owne cote-armour, that if fortune went against him, whilest the enimies should be earnest to take the king bearing the semblance of the chéefe capteine, he might himselfe escape: but king Henrie, when they came to ioine, fought not, but called to his people, and declared who he was, whereby he escaped the danger of death, for being knowne of them he was saued. The Welshmen which in great numbers the earle of Leicester had there on his side,The Welsh|men fled. at the first onset fled and ran awaie; which their demeanor, when the earle saw, he exhorted those that were about him to plaie the men, and so rushing foorth into the prease of his e|nimies,The earle of Leicester slaine. he was inclosed about and slaine, togither with his sonne Henrie. Herevpon, his death being knowne, his people tooke them to flight as men vt|terlie discomfited. There died in that battell about 4000 men (as Polydor saith.) But Richard South|well saith, there were killed of knights or rather men of armes 180, and of yeomen or rather demilances 220, of Welshmen 5000, and of such footmen as were of the earle of Leicesters owne retinue 2000, so that there died in all to the number of ten thousand men, as the same Southwell affirmeth. Among whom of noblemen, Matth. We [...] these are reckoned Hugh Spenser lord chéefe iustice, the lord Rafe Ba [...]et, the lord Peter de Montfort, the lord Iohn Beauchampe, sir William Yorke, the lord Thomas de Esterlie, the lord Walter de Creppings, Guie de B [...]lioll a Frenchman, the lord William de Mandeuill, the lord Roger S. Iohn, the lord Robert Tregoz, and others.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This ruine fell to the baron [...] by the discord which was sproong latelie before,The pri [...]e of the earle of Leicesters sons brin|geth the ba|rons to con|fusion. betwixt the earles of Lei|cester and Glocester, through the insolencie and pride of the earle of Leicesters sonnes, who (as I said be|fore) despising other of the nobilitie, and forgetting in the meane time the nature of true and vnstained no|blenesse, wherof it is said and trulie remembred, that
Nobilitas morum plus [...] [...]genitorum,spake manie reprochfull words by the said earle of Glocester, and vsed him in such euill sort, that he vp|on displeasur [...] thereof, had not onelie procured the scape of prince Edward, but ioined with him in aid, against the said earle of Leicester, and other of the ba|rons, to the vtter confusion, [...]th of them and of their cause. The bodie of the same earle was shamefullie abused & cut in peeces, his head and his priuie mem|bers were cut off, and fastened on either side of his nose, and presented vnto the wife of the lord Roger Mortimer.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The people conceiued an opinion, that this earle being thus slaine, Polydor. fighting in defense of the liberties of the realme, & performance of his oth, as they tooke it, died a martyr: which by the bruted holinesse of his passed life and miracles ascribed to him after his death, was greatlie confirmed in the next age. But the feare of the kings displeasure staied the people from hastie honouring him as a saint at this time, where otherwise, they were inclined greatlie thereto, reputing him for no lesse in their conscience, as in se|cret talke they would not sticke to vtter. There were wounded & taken, Matth. West. besides the other that were slaine at that battell of Euesham, Guie de Montfort, the earle of Leicesters sonne, the lords Iohn Fitz Iohn, Henrie de Hastings, Humfrie de Bohun the yoon|ger, Iohn de Uescie, Peter de Montfort the yoon|ger, and Nicholas de Segraue with others. The king being deliuered out of his aduersaries hands, and likewise the king of Romans, went vnto War|wike, and there increasing his power, determined to pursue his enimies.