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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The earles of Richmond & Penbroke.The earles of Richmond and Penbroke were ap|pointed to passe by a foord, which they had got know|ledge of, with thrée hundred horssemen in complet armour, and the king with his brother the earle of Kent should follow them, with the residue of the ar|mie,Robert A|quarie. sauing that Robert Aquarie or Waters, with certeine bands of footmen was commanded to as|saile the bridge, which he did verie manfullie, causing the archers & crossebowes to annoie them that kept it, so as he might draw the whole power of the eni|mies that waie,The K. pas|seth by a foord. till the king and the earles were passed by the foord. But after that the earles of Lan|caster and Hereford with their complices, heard that the king was passed with his armie, they came foorth with their people into the fields,The earles of Lancaster & Hereford flée and set fire on the towne. and put them in or|der of battell: but perceiuing the great puissance which the king had there readie to encounter them, without more adoo they fled setting fire on the towne, and leauing all their vittels and other things behind them. The kings people comming spéedilie forward, and entring the towne, quenched the fire, and fell to the spoile of such things as the enimies for hast had left behind them. The king kept nothing to himselfe, but onelie a faire cup that belonged to the earle of Lancaster, a péece esteemed to be of some great value.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The K. com|meth to Tut|burie.On the same night, being wednesdaie, the king came to Tutburie, and lodged in the castell, sending foorth the next day with all spéed, letters to the shiriffe of Derbishire and Notinghamshire, aduertising him both of the successe he had against his enimies, and withall, pronouncing them and all their adherents, rebels and traitors to him and his realme, and that for such they should be reputed, taken and vsed. Where|fore he commanded in the same letters or writs, vp|on forfeiture of all that the said shiriffe might forfeit, he should pursue the said rebels, that is, the earles of Lancaster and Hereford, the lords Roger Damorie, Hugh Andelie the yoonger, Iohn de Mowbraie, Bar|tholomew de Badelismere, Roger de Clifford, Iohn Gifford de Brimesfield, Henrie Tieis, and all and e|uerie other person or persons that were of their con|federacie, or in their companies; causing hue and crie to be raised vpon them,Hue and crie. in what part soeuer they might be heard of, and in all places where the said shiriffe should thinke it expedient, and to inioine and streightlie command all and singular persons, the said rebels and enimies to pursue, take and arrest, and them to deliuer vnto the said shiriffe, and that such as were not able to pursue them, yet with hand or horne they should leuie hue and crie against them, in paine that being found negligent herein, to be ac|compted for fauourers and adherents to the said re|bels and traitors, and that the said shiriffe should ther|vpon apprehend them, and put them in prison. The writ was dated at Tutburie the eleuenth of March, and the like writs were directed and sent foorth to all other shiriffes through the realme, and likewise to the bishop of Durham, and to the iustice of Chester.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Beside this, he directed also other writs to the said shiriffes and others, that although he had béene con|streined to passe in forceable wise through diuerse parts of his realme, and the marches of Wales, to suppresse the malicious rebellion of diuerse his sub|iects, and that as yet he was constreined to conti|nue his iournie in such forceable wise, neuertheles his pleasure was, that the peace should be mainteined and kept throughout his realme, with the statutes, lawes and customes inuiolated, and therfore he com|manded the said shiriffes, that they should cause the same to be proclaimed in places where was thought most expedient, as well within liberties as without,Proclamati|ons made for the peace to be kept. inhibiting that any maner of person, of what state or condition soeuer he was, vpon paine that might fall thereon, to attempt any thing to the breach of peace; but that euerie man should séeke to mainteine and preserue the peace and tranquillitie of the people, with the statutes, lawes and good customes of the land, to the vttermost of his power: this alwaies ob|serued, that the rebels, wheresoeuer they might be found, should be arrested, and committed to safe cu|stodie. The daie of this writ was at Tutburie afore|said on the twelfth of March.

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