Compare 1577 edition: 1 But howsoeuer it was, on the tuesday before the Ascension day, peace was proclaimed in London,Peace pro|claimed. be|tweene the king and the barons; and wheras the king either by constreint for safegard of himselfe or his fréends, either vpon assurance of the barons promise, committed himselfe vnto the companie of the same barons, at their comming with him to London they went from this last agréement, and foorthwith deui|sed other ordinances as thus. They ordeined,A new [...] of the [...] that two earles and a bishop, which being elected out by the communaltie, should choose to them nine other persons, and of these, three of them should still re|maine about the king, and by their order and the o|ther nine, all things should be gouerned both in the court and in the realme. They constreined the king and his sonne prince Edward (menacing to depose the one, and to kéepe the other in perpetuall prison) to consent and agrée to this last ordinance: and so the earles of Leicester and Glocester, and the bishop of Chichester were ordeined there the cheefe rulers, and letters sent with all spéed vnto the cardinall Sabi|nensis the popes legat, and to the king of France, to signifie to them, that the compromise agréed vpon at Lewes was vtterlie reuoked, and that a new peace in freendlie wise was concluded.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But although the bishops of London, Winche|ster, and Worcester instantlie required the said legat, that he would helpe to further the same peace, yet he fore rebuked them, in that they would giue their con|sent, so much to abase and bring vnder the kings roi|all power. And bicause he might not be suffered to EEBO page image 269 enter the realme, he first cited them to appeare before him at Bullongne. And whereas they séemed to con|temne his authoritie, and appeared not, he both sus|pended the said three bishops, and excommunicated the said earles of Leicester and Glocester, and their complices, with the citie of London, and the cinque ports: but the foresaid bishops, earles and barons, feigning to make their appeales to the popes consi|storie, or if néed were, vnto a generall councell and so foorth, though indeed trusting more to the temporall sword, than fearing the spirituall, they did not for|beare to saie and heare diuine seruice in churches and else-where, as before they had doone, till the comming of the cardinall Othobone.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The capteines and men of warre, whom the king had left at Tunbridge, immediatlie vpon the agrée|ment concluded betwixt the king and the barons, were commanded by the K. to depart, Matth. West. & repaire eue|rie man to his home; but they fearing the malice of their enimies, would not breake in sunder, but kéep|ing togither, went strait to Bristowe, and there re|mained, till the lord Edward the kings sonne was escaped out of captiuitie. But this is to be remem|bred, that before their departure from Tunbridge, when by report of William de Saie, N. Triuet. who escaping from the battell at Lewes, was come thither, they vnderstood how the matter had passed on both sides, and that the Londoners being chased out of the field, were lodged at Croidon,The Londo|ners spoiled at Croidon. about the euening tide they came thither, and assailing them in their lodgings, slue manie, and wan a great spoile. The earle of Leicester and the barons hauing the rule of the king and realme in their hands, sought to oppresse all such as they knew to be against them, and not to like of their procéedings; namelie, the northerne lords, and those of the marshes of Wales, as the lord Morti|mer and others: but waxing herewith wilfull, they vsed things with small discretion, which at length brought them to confusion. For the foure sonnes of the earle of Leicester, Henrie, Guie, Simon, and an other Henrie, which had serued right worthilie indéed on the daie of the battell, began to waxe so proud, that in comparison of themselues, they despised all others.