Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king aduertised of their dooings, sent vnto them the archbishop of Canturburie,The king sendeth to the lords. and the lord Bartholomew de Badelismere lord steward of his house, to request them to desist and leaue off from such their outragious dooings, and comming to the parle|ment which he had alreadie summoned, they might put in their complaints and grieuances, & he would see that they should haue iustice, according as equitie should require. The lord Badelismere forsaking the king,The lord Ba|delismere re|uolt [...]h to the side of the [...]arons. became one of the confederacie with the ba|rons, and so the archbish. was glad to returne alone, leauing the L. Badelismere behind him, who sent the king word by the archbishop, that till they had expel|led the Spensers out of the realme, they would not giue ouer their enterprise. On saint Barnabies day they came to a manour of Hugh Spenser the father called Fasterne, in the countie of Wiltshire, and spoiled the same with diuerse and manie other manors, aswell in Wiltshire, as else where, to wit, in Glocestershire, Dorsetshire, Hamshire, Barkeshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrie, Cam|bridgeshire, Huntingtonshire, Leicestershire, Lin|colneshire, Chesshire, and Warwikeshire, making such hauocke of all such goods or cattell as belonged to the said Hugh Spenser the father, that he was thought to be indamaged to the value of thirtie thou|sand pounds, burning his houses, [...]eating, maiming and ransoming his men.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Furthermore not contented to spoile those places which belonged to him, but hearing that in the abbeie of Stanlie he had laid vp monie and euidences, they brake into that abbeie, and tooke out thereof a thou|sand pounds in readie coine beside euidences and writings, to the indamaging of him to the value of six thousand pounds, and likewise entring into the ca|stell of Marleburgh, where the said Hugh Spenser the father had laid vp in wooll to the number of 36 sacks, they tooke the same and other of his goods, as well in plate as apparell, to the value in all of six thou|sand pounds. And they did not onelie spoile the pos|sessions, houses, goods, and cattels of the two Spen|sers, whersoeuer they could heare that the same were to be found, but also they vsed the like disorder a|gainst all such as were knowne to be fréends or well-willers, to either the father or sonne, sending com|missions vnto such as should see the same executed to the most extremitie, so that in this rage of enuie and hot reuenge there was no parcialitie, but that one with another, the innocent with the nocent, the guiltlesse with the guiltie went to wracke, and (as the old prouerbe saith concurring with common practise

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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king herevnto answered, that as concerning Hugh Spenser the father,The kings answer. he was abroad on his bu|sines beyond the seas, and that Hugh the sonne was on the sea for the safe kéeping of the cinque ports, as by his office he was bound, and that they ought not by any right or custome to be banished, before they haue made answere to the crimes obiected against them. He added further, that their request wanted foundation of law and reason. And if it might be proued that the Spensers had in any wise offended against the statutes and ordinances of the land, they were alwaies readie to make their answere as the lawes of the realme should require. Lastlie he added this with an oth, that he would not be forsworne con|trarie to that which at his coronation he had taken vpon him by oth, through granting letters of peace and pardon to such notorious offendors in contempt of his person, and to the trouble and disquieting of the whole realme.