Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 King Henrie after he had read their articles, with the defiance which they annexed to the same, answe|red the esquiers,The kings answer to the messengers that brought the articles. that he was readie with dint of sword and fierce battell to prooue their quarrell false, and nothing else than a forged matter, not doubting, but that God would aid and assist him in his righ|teous cause, against the disloiall and false forsworne traitors. The next daie in the morning earlie, being the euen of Marie Magdalene, they set their battels in order on both sides, and now whilest the warriors looked when the token of battell should be giuen, the abbat of Shrewesburie,The king of|fereth to par|don his ad|uersaries. and one of the clearks of the priuie seale, were sent from the king vnto the Per|sies, to offer them pardon, if they would come to any reasonable agréement. By their persuasions, the lord Henrie Persie began t [...] giue eare vnto the kings of|fers, & so sent with them his vncle the earle of Wor|cester, to declare vnto the king the causes of those troubles, and to require some effectuall reformation in the same.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 It was reported for a truth, that now when the king had condescended vnto all that was resonable at his hands to be required, and seemed to humble himselfe more than was meet for his estate, the earle of Worcester (vpon his returne to his nephue) made relation cleane contrarie to that the king had said,The earle of Worcesters double dea|ling in wrong reporting the kings words. in such sort that he set his nephues hart more in displea|sure towards the king, than euer it was before, dri|uing him by that meanes to fight whether he would or not: then suddenlie blew the trumpets, the kings part crieng S. George vpon them, the aduersaries cried Esperance Persie, and so the two armies furiouslie ioined. The archers on both sides shot for the best game, laieng on such load with arrowes, that manie died, and were driuen downe that neuer rose againe.
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some write) which had the fore ward on the Persies side,
Hall. The Scots. intending to be reuenged of their old displeasures doone to them by the
English nation, set so fiercelie on the kings fore ward, led by the earle of Stafford, that they made the
same draw backe, and had almost broken their aduersaries ar|raie. The Welshmen also which before had [...]aine lur|king in the woods, mounteines, and marishes, hea|ri [...]g of this battell toward, came to the aid of the Persies,The Welsh|men come to aid
the Per|sies. and refreshed the wearied people with new succours. The king perceiuing that his men
were thus put to distresse, what with the violent impression of the Scots, and the tempestuous stormes of
ar|rowes, that his aduersaries discharged fréely against him and his people, it was no need to will him to
stirre: for suddenlie with his fresh battell, he appro|ched and relieued his men; so that the battell began
more fierce than before. Here the lord Henrie Per|sie, and the earle Dowglas, a right stout and hardie
capteine, not regarding the shot of the kings battell, nor the close order of the ranks, pressing forward
to|gither bent their whole forces towards the kings per|son, comming vpon him with speares and swords so
fiercelie, that the earle of March the Scot,
The earle of March.
Tho. Walsi.