Compare 1577 edition: 1 Neuerthelesse, whether for that the king by a pro|clamation set foorth the sixteenth of March, had com|manded (as some write) that the lords Mowbraie, EEBO page image 326 Clifford, and Deieuille for disobeieng to make their personall appearance before him, should auoid the land within ten daies next insuing, or for that they meant with all speed to put their enterprise in execu|tion, we find that the earle of Hereford, the lords Mortimer, the vncle and nephue, the lord Roger Da|morie, the lord Iohn Mowbraie, the lord Hugh Aude|lie, and his sonne named also Hugh, the lord Clifford, the lord Iohn Gifford of Brimesfield, the lord Morice Berkeley, the lord Henrie Tieis, the lord Iohn Ma|trauers, with manie other that were alied togither, hauing the consent also of the earle of Lancaster, on the wednesdaie next after the feast of the Inuention of the crosse,The lords take armes vpon them against the Spensers. hauing with them to the number of eigth hundred men of armes, fiue hundred hoblers, and ten thousand men on foot, came with the kings banner spread vnto Newport in Wenloks lands, where they tooke the castell that belonged vnto the lord chamberleine Hugh Spenser the yoonger.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 They inuade the Spensers lands.They also tooke Kaerdie, Kersillie, Lantrissane, Taluan, Lamblethian, Kenefegis, Neoth, Druffe|lan, and Diuenor; part of his men which in the fore|said places they found, they slue, as sir Iohn Iwain, and sir Matthew de Gorges knights, with 15 other of his men that were Welshmen: part they tooke and put them in prison, as sir Rafe or Randulfe de Gorges being sore wounded, sir Philip Ioice, sir Iohn de Frissingfield, sir Iohn de Dunstable, Wil|liam de Dunstable, and manie other, of the which the most part were put to their ransome. They tooke, spoi|led and destroied so much in value of his goods as a|mounted vnto two thousand pounds. They tooke vp in such debts as were owing to him in those parts, to the summe of thrée thousand pounds, and of his rents to the value neere hand of a thousand pounds. They burnt 23 of his manors which he had in those parts of Wales, with his barnes, and did what hurt they could deuise, burning or taking awaie all his wri|tings and euidences. After they had remained 15 daies there, they came into England, with the like force and disorder inuading his castels, manors and possessions, so that the damage which they did here vnto the said lord chamberleine, amounted to the va|lu [...] of ten thousand pounds.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king aduertised of their dooings, sent vnto them the archbishop of Canturburie,The king sendeth to the lords. and the lord Bartholomew de Badelismere lord steward of his house, to request them to desist and leaue off from such their outragious dooings, and comming to the parle|ment which he had alreadie summoned, they might put in their complaints and grieuances, & he would see that they should haue iustice, according as equitie should require. The lord Badelismere forsaking the king,The lord Ba|delismere re|uolt [...]h to the side of the [...]arons. became one of the confederacie with the ba|rons, and so the archbish. was glad to returne alone, leauing the L. Badelismere behind him, who sent the king word by the archbishop, that till they had expel|led the Spensers out of the realme, they would not giue ouer their enterprise. On saint Barnabies day they came to a manour of Hugh Spenser the father called Fasterne, in the countie of Wiltshire, and spoiled the same with diuerse and manie other manors, aswell in Wiltshire, as else where, to wit, in Glocestershire, Dorsetshire, Hamshire, Barkeshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrie, Cam|bridgeshire, Huntingtonshire, Leicestershire, Lin|colneshire, Chesshire, and Warwikeshire, making such hauocke of all such goods or cattell as belonged to the said Hugh Spenser the father, that he was thought to be indamaged to the value of thirtie thou|sand pounds, burning his houses, [...]eating, maiming and ransoming his men.