10.1. The tenor of the said sixt letter lack|ing a direction.
The tenor of the said sixt letter lack|ing a direction.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 _YOu shall vnderstand my lord, that the communication be|fore hand had, is now brought to effect. For the earle of Here|ford, the lords Roger Damorie, Hugh de Audelie the yoonger, Bartholo|mew de Badelesmer, Roger de Clifford, Iohn Gifford, Henrie Teis, Thomas Manduit, Iohn de Willington, and all o|ther are come to Pomfret, and are readie to make you good assurance, so that you will performe couenant with them, to wit for your comming to aid vs, and to go with vs into England and Wales, to liue and die with vs in our quarell. We therefore beseech you to assigne vs day and place, where we may meet, and we will be readie to accomplish fullie our businesse: and we beseech you to make vs a safe conduct for thirtie horsses, that we may in safetie come to your parts.
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1 The
king,
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when such earles and lords as he had li|cenced for a time were returned (his brother the earle of
Northfolke excepted) & that the most part of those men of warre were assembled that had summons,
although diuerse came not at all; about the first sun|daie in Lent he set forward towards his enimies,
hauing with him to the number of sixtéene hundred men of armes on horssebacke,
The king set|teth forward towards his enimies. He made a proclamation.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 At his comming to a little village called Cald|well,Burton vpon Trent. he sent afore him certeine bands to Burton vp|on EEBO page image 330 on Trent, where he ment to haue lodged: but the earles of Lancaster and Hereford, the lords Roger Damorie, Hugh Audelie the yonger, Iohn de Mow|braie, Bartholomew de Badelismere, Roger de Clif|ford, Iohn Gifford de Brem [...]sfield, Henrie Tieis, and many other being gotten thither before, kept the bridge, and affailing the kings people which he had thus sent before, some of them they slue, and some they wounded, so defending the bridge, that none could passe, and by reason that the waters, and speci|allie the riuer of Trent through abundance of raine that was latelie fallen, were raised, there was no meane to passe by the foords, wherevpon the king was constreined to staie the space of thrée daies, in which meane time, the earles and their complices for|tified the bridge at Burton, with barriers and such like defenses, after the maner of warre, but the king at length vpon deliberate aduise taken how to passe the riuer,The earle of Surrie. Peraduen|ture at Wich|nore. ordeined, that the earle of Surrie with cer|teine armed men, should go ouer by a bridge that was thrée miles distant from Burton, that he might come vpon the backes of the enimies, as they were fighting with those that should assaile them afront.