Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Therefore it was thought, that the oth which the earle of Shrewesburie in that sort receiued before all his people there openlie in field,The oth of the earle of Shre [...]wesburie in presence of the people ne|cessarie. serued to great pur|pose; to put out of his soldiours wauering heads all such lewd expectation that he would turne to the eni|mies, staieng thereby their fickle minds; sith they were now assured, that he being their chiefteine meant no dissimulation. A matter trulie of no small importance, considering the fauor which the com|mons bare towards him, and the opinion they had conceiued of his high prowesse; so that which waie he inclined, it was thought verelie the game were likelie to go. But now after the king was aduertised of that perilous commotion of the northerne men, he appointed not onlie the said earle of Shrewesburie to raise a power to resist them: but also ordeined the duke of Norffolke his lieutenant generall, with the marquesse of Excester,The duke of Norffolke the kings li [...]ute|nant. and the said earle of Shre|wesburie, the earles of Huntington and Rutland, accompanied with a mightie power to go against them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 These lords raising such retinues of souldiers and men of warre as were to them assigned, made for|ward to the place where the armie of the rebels was then incamped, which was beyond the towne of Doncaster, in the high waie towards Yorke. But EEBO page image 943 first the said earle of Shrewesburie, with the earles of Huntington and Rutland, and such other that were next adioining to those parties, with their pow|ers assembled out of the shires of Salop, Stafford, Leicester, Rutland, Notingham, and Derbie, came to a place in Notingham shire called Blithlow, and there taking the musters of their people, streight|waies passed foorth to Doncaster, and appointed cer|teine bands of their men, to lie in places where anie [...]oords or passages laie ouer the riuer of Dun, that runneth by the northside of Doncaster, to staie the e|nimies if they should attempt to come ouer. Short|lie after came the duke of Norffolke, and finallie the marquesse of Excester with a iollie companie of westerne men, well and perfectlie appointed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When these capteins and sage councellors being here assembled, vnderstood the manner of the nor|therne men, their number, and readinesse to battell, they first practised with great policie, to haue paci|fied the matter without bloudshedding: but the nor|therne men were so bent to mainteine their wilfull enterprise, that there was no hope to take vp the matter without battell: therefore a daie was set, on the which they should trie the quarrell bewixt them with dint of sword.The euen of Simon and Iude. But sée the chance. The night be|fore the daie assigned for this bloudie and vnnaturall battell, to haue béene fought betwixt men of one na|tion, and subiects to one king; there fell a raine not great to speake of, but yet as it were by miracle, the riuer of Dun rose suddenlie on such a height,A s [...]oud. that sel|dome had béene séene there the like hugenesse of wa|ter:Gods proui|dence staieth them from battell. so that the daie when the houre of battell should come, it was not possible for the one armie to come at the other, and so the appointment made betwéene both the armies for triall of the matter by force of armes, was by Gods good prouidence disappointed, and manie an innocent mans life preserued, that should haue died, if their purposes had taken place.