Compare 1577 edition: 1 After Easter the erle of Leicester, hauing London at his commandement,Rochester besieged. went to Rochester and besie|ged that citie, but the capteine thereof Iohn earle of Warren did manfullie resist the enimies; till the king aduertised thereof, with the power of the mar|shes of the north parts and other came and remooued the siege. N. Triue [...]. Matth. West. This doone, he left a conuenient garrison within the citie to defend it, and comming to Tun|bridge, wan the castell, and taking the countesse of Glocester that was within it, permitted hir to de|part. This doone, he repaired to the sea side towards France, to staie there till his brethren, Geffrey and Guie, the sonnes of the earle of Marsh should arriue with some band of souldiers,The kings halfe brethren come out of France to his aid. The king in|campeth at Lewes. for whom he had now sent and reuoked into the realme, being latelie before banished by the Nobles, as before yée haue heard. They shortlie after landed, wherevpon the king ha|uing his power increased, came to Lewes, and pight downe his field not farre from that towne.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the end of Aprill the barons hearing where the king was, departed from London with a great multitude of the citizens, whom they placed in the vantward, and marched foorth towards the king, and comming neere to the place where he was lodged; set downe their tents, and incamped themselues a little beside him. Either here or by the waie as they came forward, the barons deuised a letter, and sent it vnto the king, conteining an excuse of their dooings, and a declaration of their well meanings,The barons send a letter to the king. both to|wards him, and the wealth of the realme; and heere|with accused those that were about him, and with e|uill counsell misinformed him, both against them, a|gainst the publike wealth of the land, and his owne honor. This letter was dated the tenth of Maie, and subscribed with the names of a great number of no|ble men, of the which the more part doo here insue, but yet not all; Sir Simon de Montfort earle of Leicester and high steward of England, sir Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester, Robert Ferrers earle of Darbie, Hugh Spenser lord cheefe iustice, & Hen|rie Montfort sonne and heire to the earle of Leice|ster, Richard Grey, Henrie Hastings, Iohn Fitz Iohn, Robert de Uéepont, Iohn Ginuile, Robert Rops, William Marmion, Baldwine Wake, Gil|bert Gifford, Nicholas de Segraue, Godfrey de Lu|cie, Iohn de Ueisie, William de Mountchensie, with other. The king answered this letter,The answer to y^ [...] barons. in char|ging them with rebellion, and moouing of open war against him, to the great disquieting of the realme. Also he laid vnto their charge, the burning of the ma|nours, houses and places of his nobles and councel|lors; and herewith defied them by the same answer,He defieth them. which was dated at Lewes aforesaid on the twelfth of Maie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Also the king of Romanes, and prince Edward sent their defiance to the barons at the same time in writing vnder their seales, for that the barons in their letter to the king, had burthened them and o|ther with misleading the king with vntrue informa|tions and sinister counsell. Matth. West. Thus as they writ to and fro such nipping letters, all the treatie of peace was forgotten and laid aside, so that they prepared to battell. The king had indéed the greater number of armed men, but manie of them were vnfaithfull, and cared not greatlie though the losse fell to his side, and so whilest they went to it without order, & vnaduised|lie, they fought at aduenture, & continued but faintly. N. Triuet. The ordering of the battels. His capteines made thrée battels of their armie, the lord Edward led the foreward, and with him Willi|am de Ualence earle of Penbroke, and Iohn de Warren erle of Surrey and Sussex. In the second, the K. of Almaine, with his sonne Henrie were cheef|taines. The third the king gouerned himselfe.