Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Whilest these things were in dooing, the rebels brake into the citie on that side, where was no suspi|cion of their entring at all; but being come almost to the bridges, they were incountered by the soldiers, beaten backe, and chased out by the same waie they came. The next daie being the six and twentith of August, there came to the earle 1400 lancequenets.Lanceque|nets come to the earle of Warwike. The rebels notwithstanding that such reinforcement of the earles power might haue somewhat discoura|ged them, yet trusting altogither to certeine vaine prophesies, which they had among them,The rebels trust in vaine prophesies. and set out in verses by such wisards as were there with them in the campe, they had conceiued such a vaine hope of prosperous successe in their businesse, that they little estéemed anie power that might come against them. Among other of those same verses, these were two:

The countrie gnuffes, Hob, Dick, and Hick,

with clubs and clowted shoone,

Shall fill vp Dussin dale with bloud

of slaughtered bodies soone.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Upon hope therefore of this and other vaine pro|phesies, the rebels through the diuels procurement,The rebels remooue. that had nourished and pricked them forward all this while in their wicked procéedings, determined to remoue thither, to the end that they might with more spéed make an end of the matter, before they should be driuen to disperse themselues by famine. For the earle of Warwike had taken order to haue the passages stopped, in such wise as no vittels could easilie be conueied to their campe, the want whereof began alreadie to pinch them. Herevpon setting fire on their cabins, which they had raised and built here and there of timber and bushes (the smoke whereof couered all the grounds about them) they came downe with their ensignes into the vallie called Dussin daie where with all spéed that might be they intrenched themselues about, and raising a rampire of a good height, set stakes also round about them, to kéepe off the horssemen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The earle of Warwike perceiuing their dooings, the next daie being the seuen and twentith of August with all his horssemen,The earle of Warwike go|eth foorth to giue the eni|mies battell. and the Almans with cap|teine Druries band, issued foorth of the citie, march|ing streight towards the enimies. Yet before he ap|proched in sight of them, he sent sir Edmund Kneuet & sir Thomas Palmer knights, with others, to vnder|stand of them, whether now at length they would sub|mit themselues, & receiue the kings pardon; which if they would doo,Pardon of [...]|red he offred to grant it freelie to all the whole multitude, one or two of them onelie excep|ted: EEBO page image 1039 but they with generall voices refusing it, the earle fell in hand to incourage his people vnto the battell, and hauing appointed as well the horssemen as footmen in what order they should giue the charge, they passed forward in approching the enimies. The rebels beholding them thus to come forward, put themselues in order of battell, in such manner, that all the gentlemen which had béene taken prisoners, and were kept in irons for starting awaie, were pla|ced in the fore ranke of their battell, coupled two and two togither, to the end they might be killed by their owne friends that came to seeke their deliuerance: but yet as God would haue it, the most part of them were saued. Miles the maister gunner among the rebels, leuieng a péece of ordinance, shot it off, and stroke him that caried the kings standard in the thigh, and the horsse through the shoulder.