Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 In the meane time,The lords came with a power to raise the siege. at the suit of the lord Bade|lismere, the earle of Hereford, and other lords of the confederacie, came with a great power vnto King|stone, about the feast of Simon and Iude, and there staieng certeine daies for some of their companie that were to come vnto them, they sent vnto the king the archbishop of Canturburie, and the bishop of London, with the earle of Penbroke, requiring him to remooue his siege, till by parlement some order might be taken: but the king would not giue eare to their suit, but continued his siege till the castell was yeelded to him.The castell of Léeds yéelded For those that were at Kingstone cowardlie leuing their enterprise, came not forward, but returned backe againe. They that were within the castell, hauing simplie submitted themselues to the king, caused twelue or thirtéene of them to suffer death.Walter Cul|pepper exe|cuted. Amongst other was one Walter Culpepper reckoned for the chéefe of them that defended the ca|stell against the king. The wife of the lord Badelis|mere, EEBO page image 328 with his nephue Bartholomew de Burwash was sent to the tower of London, but his sister was sent to Douer castell, there to remaine in safe kée|ping. The castell of Leeds being thus yéelded to the king, he entred the same on All halowes daie, and shortlie after the castell of Chilham was deliue|red, and the castell of Tunbridge left void by them that had it in keeping. The king thus bestirring him, came into Essex, and seized into his hands the lands of the lord Badelismere, and likewise the lands of such as were his mainteiners, abbettors, fréends, fauourers, and furtherers; of the which such as he could meet with he put in prison, and here|with summoned an armie to meet him at Cirence|ster about saint Lucies day the virgine. And then a|bout saint Andrews tide he came to London, where the archbishop of Canturburie had called a prouinci|all councell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 At the same time Hugh Spenser the sonne, being latelie come from the sea,The lord chã|berleine yeel|deth himselfe to the law. yéelded himselfe prisoner to the kings ward, beséeching the king that he might haue right ministred to him, concerning the wrongs and iniuries to him doone by the barons in maner as before ye haue heard, speciallie for the award which in parlement they had procured to be enacted against him, the errours committed in the processe, whereof he besought the king that he might be ad|mitted to shew: as first, in that they made them|selues iudges: secondlie, in that he was not called to answer: thirdlie, for that the same award was made without the assent of the prelats, who are péeres of the parlement as well as the temporall lords: fourth|lie, in that the said barons had no record in their pur|suit vpon the causes conteined in that award: fiftlie, in that the award was made against the forme of the great charter of franchises, wherein is conteined that none shall be foreiudged nor destroied but by lawfull iudgement of his péers, according to the law of the land. Further, he alledged that it was to be considered, how the said barons and great men being summoned to come in due maner vnto that parlement, they came in forceable wise with all their powers. A like petition was also exhibited on the be|halfe of Hugh Spenser the father, for redresse to be had of the wrongs and losses, which in like case he had susteined.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Anno Reg. 15.The king fauouring inough the causes and petiti|ons of the Spensers, granted their requests, and de|liuered the petitions vnto the archbishop of Cantur|burie and his suffragans,The king as|keth the opi|nions of the prelats. the which at the same time were there assembled in their prouinciall councell a|foresaid, requiring to haue their aduise and opinion therein. He likewise requested of the earles and ba|rons that were then with him, and of the counsellers in law, what they thought of this matter. The prelats vpon deliberation had, declared that in their opini|on, the said award as touching the disheriting and banishing of the Spensers, the father and sonne was erronious,The declara|tion of the prelats. and not rightlie decréed, and for them|selues they denied that they either did or could thinke it reason to consent therevnto, and therefore they re|quired that it might be repealed, and the kings bro|ther Edmund earle of Kent, Iohn de Britaine earle of Richmond,The declara|tion of the earles. Aimer de Ualence earle of Penbroke, and Edmund earle of Arundell, then being in pre|sence of the king, and likewise of the foresaid prelats, affirmed that the said award pronounced against the Spensers was made contrarie to law and right, and therefore as the prelats requested, that the same might be repealed.