Compare 1577 edition: 1 For there died vnder the signe of the castell, Ed|mund duke of Summerset,The duke of Summerset slaine. who (as hath béene repor|ted) was warned long before to auoid all castels: and beside him laie Henrie the second of that name earle of Northumberland, Humfrie earle of Stafford sonne to the duke of Buckingham, Iohn lord Clif|ford, sir Barthram Antwisell knight,Thomas lord Clifford, saith Whethamsted. a Norman borne (who forsaking his natiue countrie to continue in his loiall obedience to king Henrie, came ouer to dwell here in England when Normandie was lost) William Zouch, Iohn Boutreux, Rafe Bapthorp, with his sonne William Corwin, William Cotton, Gilbert Faldinger, Reginald Griffon, Iohn Dawes, Elice Wood, Iohn Eith, Rafe Woodward, Gilbert Skarlock, and Rafe Willoughbie esquiers, with manie other, in all to the number of eight thou|sand, as Edward Hall saith in his chronicle: if there escaped not a fault in the impression, as 8000 for 800, sith hundreds in verie déed would better agrée with the number of the kings whole power, which he brought with him to that battell, being not manie a|boue two thousand, as by writers appeareth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Humfreie duke of Buckingham, being woun|ded, and Iames Butler earle of Ormond and Wil|shire, and Thomas Thorp lord chéefe baron of the es|cheker, séeing fortune thus against them, left the king alone, and with a number fled awaie. Those that thus fled, made the best shift they could to get awaie through gardens and backesides, through shrubs, hed|ges and woods, séeking places where to hide them|selues, vntill that dangerous tempest of the battell were ouerblowne.The kings part vanqui|shed. Diuerse of the kings house also that could better skill to plaie the courtiers than war|riors, fled with the first; and those of the east parts of the realme were likewise noted of too much lacke of courage, for their spéedie withdrawing themselues, and leauing the king in danger of his aduersaries: who perceiuing his men thus fled from him, with|drew into a poore mans house to saue himselfe from the shot of arrowes, that fiue about him as thicke as snow.

¶This doone, saith one historien, the duke of Yorke, Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 678, 679. in Quart. the earles of Warwike, and Salisburie, came vnto the king where he was, and be sought him on their knées of grace and forgiuenesse for that they had doone in his presence, and besought him of his high|nesse to take them to grace, and as his true liege men. The king desiring them to cease their people, that there should be no more hurt doone, and to obeie his commandement, did cause to be proclamed in the kings name, that all manner of people should cease off their malice, and not to smite one stroke more, and so ceased the battell. And vpon the day next after, the king and the duke of Yorke, the earles of Warwike & Salisburie, came all to London; and were lodged in the bishops palace of London, where they kept their Whitsuntide with great ioy and so|lemnitie, concluding there to hold a parlement, the same to begin on the ninth daie of Iulie next follow|ing.]