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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus hauing put the quéene in a vaine hope of that which was nothing so, they departed from thence vnto Wallingford, and after to Abington, intising the people by all meanes possible vnto rebellion, all the waie as they went, and sending their agents a|broad for the same purpose: at length they came to Circester in the darke of the night, and tooke vp their lodgings. The inhabitants of that towne suspecting the matter, and iudging (as the truth was) these ru|mors which the lords spred abroad to be but dreams, they tooke therevpon counsell togither, got them to armor, and stopped all the entries and outgates of the Innes where these new ghestes were lodged, inso|much that when they about midnight secretlie at|tempted to haue come foorth, and gone their waies, the townesmen with bow and arrowes were readie to staie them, and keepe them in. The lords percei|uing the danger, got them to their armor and wea|pons, and did their best by force to breake through and repell the townesmen. But after they had fought from midnight till three of the clocke in the after|noone of the next daie, and perceiued they could not preuaile,The lords yeeld them|selues. they yeelded themselues to the townesmen, beseeching them to haue their liues saued, till they might come to the kings presence.