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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the lord gouernor Edmund duke of Yorke was aduertised, that the duke of Lancaster kept still the sea, and was readie to arriue (but where he ment first to set foot on land, there was not any that vnder|stood the certeintie) he sent for the lord chancellor Ed|mund Stafford bishop of Excester, and for the lord treasuror William Scroope earle of Wiltshire, and other of the kings priuie councell, as Iohn Bushie, William Bagot, Henrie Greene, and Iohn Russell knights: of these he required to know what they thought good to be doone in this matter, concerning the duke of Lancaster, being on the seas. Their ad|uise was, to depart from London, vnto S. Albons, and there to gather an armie to resist the duke in his landing, but to how small purpose their counsell ser|ued, [...]he conclusion thereof plainlie declared, for the most part that were called,The commõs [...]enie [...]o resist [...]he duke of [...]ancaster. when they came thither [...]oldlie protested, that they would not fight against the duke of Lancaster, whome they knew to be euill dealt withall.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The lord treasuror, Bushie, Bagot, and Gréene, perceiuing that the commons would cleaue vnto, and take part with the duke, slipped awaie, leauing the lord gouernour of the realme, and the lord chan|cellor to make what shift they could for themselues: Bagot got him to Chester, and so escaped into Ire|land; the other fled to the castell of Bristow, in hope there to be in safetie. The duke of Lancaster, after that he had coasted alongst the shore a certeine time, & had got some intelligence how the peoples minds were affected towards him,The duke of Lancaster lã|deth in York|shire. landed about the begin|ning of Iulie in Yorkshire, at a place sometime cal|led [...]auenspur, betwixt Hull and Bridlington, and with him not past thréescore persons,Additions to Polychron. as some write: but he was so ioifullie receiued of the lords, knights, and gentlemen of those parts, that he found means by their helpe) forthwith to assemble a great num|ber of people, that were willing to take his part. The first that came to him, were the lords of Lin|coln [...]shire, and other countries adioining, as the lords Willoughbie, Ros, Darcie, and Beaumont.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 At his comming vnto Doncaster, the earle of Northumberland, and his sonne sir Henrie Persie, wardens of the marches against Scotland, with the earle of Westmerland, came vnto him,The duke of [...] to the lords [...]hat [...] him. where he sware vnto those lords, that he would demand no more, but the lands that were to him descended by in|heritance from his father, and in right of his wife. Moreouer, he undertooke to cause the paiment of tax|es and tallages to be laid downe, & to bring the king to good gouernment, & to remooue from him the Che|shiremen, which were enuied of manie; for that the king estéemed of them more than of anie other; hap|pilie, bicause they were more faithfull to him than other, readie in all respects to obeie his commande|ments and pleasure. From Doncaster hauing now got a mightie armie about him, he marched foorth with all spéed through the countries, comming by E|uesham vnto Berkelie: within the space of three daies, all the kings castels in those parts were sur|rendred vnto him.

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