Compare 1577 edition: 1 The conspirators comming to Windsore, entered the castell, and vnderstanding that the king was gon from thence to London, determined with all spéed to make towards the citie: but changing that determi|nation as they were on their waie, they turned to Colbroke, and there staied.The king go|eth foorth a|gainst them. King Henrie issuing out of London with twentie thousand men, came streight to Hunslo heath, and there pitched his campe to abide the comming of his enimies:They retire. but when they were aduertised of the kings puissance, amazed with feare, and forthinking their begun enterprise,They come to Circester. as men mistrusting their owne companie, departed from thence to Berkhamstéed, and so to Circester, & there the lords tooke their lodging. The earle of Kent, and the earle of Salisburie in one Inne, and the earle of Huntington and lord Spenser in an other,The bailiffe of Circester setteth vpon them on their lodgings. and all the host laie in the fields, wherevpon in the night sea|son, the bailiffe of the towne with fourescore archers set on the house, where the erle of Kent and the other laie, which house was manfullie assaulted and strong|lie defended a great space.The lords set fire on their lodgings. The earle of Huntington being in an other Inne with the lord Spenser, set fire on diuerse houses in the towne, thinking that the assailants would leaue the assault and rescue their goods, which thing they nothing regarded. Hall. Froissard. The host li|eng without, hearing noise, and seeing this fire in the towne, thought verelie that king Henrie had béene come thither with his puissance, and therevpon fled without measure, euerie man making shift to saue himselfe, and so that which the lords deuised for their helpe, wrought their destruction: for if the armie that laie without the towne had not mistaken the matter, when they saw the houses on fire, they might easilie haue succoured their chéefeteins in the towne, that were assailed but with a few of the townesmen, in comparison of the great multitude that laie abroad in the fields. But such was the ordinance of the mightie Lord of hostes, who disposeth althings at his pleasure.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The earle of Huntington and his companie seeing the force of the townesmen to increase, fled out on the backside, intending to repaire to the armie which they found dispersed and gone. Then the earle seeing no hope of comfort, fled into Essex. The other lords which were left fighting in the towne of Circester, were wounded to death and taken, and their heads stricken off and sent to London. Thus writeth Hall of this conspiracie, in following what author I know not. Thom. Wals. But Thomas Walsingham and diuerse other séeme somewhat to dissent from him in relation of this matter: for they write that the conspiratours ment vpon the sudden to haue set vpon the king in the castell of Windsore,A maske. vnder colour of a maske or mummerie, and so to haue dispatched him; and resto|ring king Richard vnto the kingdome, to haue reco|uered their former titles of honour, with the possessi|ons which they had lost by iudgement of the last par|lement. But the king getting knowledge of their pretensed treasons, got him with all spéed vnto London.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The conspirators, to wit, the earles of Kent and Salisburie, sir Rafe Lumlie, and others, supposing that the king had not vnderstood their malicious pur|pose, the first sundaie of the new yeare, Harding. which fell in the octaues of the Innocents, came in the twilight of the euening vnto Windsore with foure hundred armed men, where vnderstanding that the king was withdrawne vpon warning had of their purposed in|tention, they foorthwith return [...]d backe, and came first vnto Sunnings, a manor place not farre from Reading, where the quéene wife to king Richard then laie. Here setting a good countenance of the matter, the earle of Kent declared in presence of the queenes seruants that the lord Henrie of Lancaster was fled from his presence with his children and fréends,The words of the earle of Kent. and EEBO page image 516 had shut vp himselfe & them in the Tower of Lon|don, as one afraid to come abroad, for all the brags made heretofore of his manhood: and therefore (saith he) my intention is (my lords) to go to Richard that was, is, and shall be our king, who being alreadie es|caped foorth of prison, lieth now at Pomfret, with an hundred thousand men. And to cause his spéech the better to be beléeued, he tooke awaie the kings cogni|sances from them that ware the same, as the collars from their necks, and the badges of cressants from the sleeues of the seruants of houshold, and throwing them awaie, said that such cognisances were no lon|ger to be borne.