Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Shortlie after, he procured them to be indicted at Notingham,The names of the appel|lants. suborning such as should appeale them in parlement, to wit, Edward earle of Rutland, Tho|mas Mowbraie earle marshall, Thomas Holland earle of Kent, Iohn Holland earle of Huntington, Thomas Beaufort erle of Summerset, Iohn Mon|tacute earle of Salisburie, Thomas lord Spenser, and the lord William Scroope lord chamberleine. In the meane time, the king fearing what might be attempted against him by those that fauoured these noblemen that were in durance,A gard of Cheshire men about the king. sent for a power of Cheshire men, that might day and night keepe watch and ward about his person. They were about two thousand archers, paid wéekelie, as by the annales of Britaine it appeareth. The king had little trust in a|ny of the nobilitie, except in his brother the earle of Huntington, and the earle of Rutland sonne to the duke of Yorke, and in the earle of Salisburie: in these onelie he reposed a confidence, and not in any other, except in certeine knights and gentlemen of his priuie chamber.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the meane time, whiles things were thus in broile, before the beginning of the parlement, diuers other, beside them of whom we haue spoken, were ap|prehended and put in sundrie prisons.The lords appointed to come in war|like manner to the parlemẽt. The parle|ment was summoned to begin at Westminster the 17 of September, and writs therevpon directed to e|uerie of the lords to appeare, and to bring with them a sufficient number of armed men and archers in their best arrai [...]: for it was not knowen how the dukes of Lancaster and Yorke would take the death EEBO page image 490 of their brother, nor how other péeres of the realme would take the apprehension and imprisonment of their kinsemen, the earles of Arundell and War|wike, and of the other prisoners. Suerlie the two dukes when they heard that their brother was so sud|denlie made awaie, Polydor. they wist not what to saie to the matter, and began both to be sorowfull for his death, and doubtfull of their owne states: for sith they saw how the king (abused by the counsell of euill men) ab|steined not from such an heinous act, they thought he would afterwards attempt greater misorders from time to time. Therefore they assembled in all hast, great numbers of their seruants,The dukes of Lancaster & Yorke assem|ble their powers to re|sist the kings dealings. fréends, and te|nants, and comming to London, were receiued into the citie. For the Londoners were right sorie for the death of the duke of Glocester, who had euer sought their fauour, in somuch that now they would haue béene contented to haue ioined with the dukes in see|king reuenge of so noble a mans death, procured and brought to passe without law or reason, as the com|mon brute then walked; although peraduenture he was not as yet made awaie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Here the dukes and other fell in counsell, and ma|nie things were proponed. Some would that they shuld by force reuenge the duke of Glocesters death, other thought it méet that the earles Marshall and Huntington and certeine others, as chéefe authours of all the mischeefe should be pursued and punished for their demerites, hauing trained vp the king in vice and euill customes, euen from his youth. But the dukes (after their displeasure was somewhat asswa|ged) determined to couer the stings of their griefes for a time, and if the king would amend his maners, to forget also the iniuries past. Caxton. Fabian. Polydor. In the meane time the king laie at Eltham, and had got about him a great power (namelie of those archers, which he had sent for out of Cheshire, in whome he put a singular trust more than in any other.)