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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The earle of Warwike and others sore grieued therewith, caused a whole volie of artillerie to be shot off at the rebels: and herewith capteine Drurie with his owne band, & the Almans or lanceknights, whether ye list to call them, on foot, getting néere to the enimies, hailsed them with their harquebut shot so sharplie, and thrust forward vpon them with their pikes so stronglie, that they brake them in sunder. The gentlemen, who (as we haue said) were pla|ced in the fore ranke, found meanes (as good hap was) to shrinke aside, and escaped the danger for the more part, although some indeed were slaine by the Almans, and other that knew not what they were. The light horssemen of the kings part herewith gaue in amongst them so roundlie, that the rebels not a|ble to abide their valiant charge, were easilie put to flight, and with the foremost their grand capteine Robert Ket gallopped awaie so fast as his horsse would beare him. The horssemen following in chase, slue them downe on heapes, euer still as they ouer|tooke them; so that the chase continuing for the space of thrée or foure miles,The number of the rebels slaine. there were slaine to the num|ber of thrée thousand fiue hundred at the least: beside a great multitude that were wounded as they fled here and there ech waie foorth, as séemed best to serue their turne for their most spéedie escape out of dan|ger. Yet one part of them that had not beene assailed at the first onset, séeing such slaughter made of their fellowes, kept their ground by their ordinance, and shranke not; determining as men desperatlie bent, not to die vnreuenged, but to fight it out to the last man.