Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king was not hastie to purchase the deliue|rance of the earle March,The suspicion of K. Henrie grounded vpõ a guiltie con|science. bicause his title to the crowne was well inough knowen, and therefore suf|fered him to remaine in miserable prison, wishing both the said earle, and all other of his linage out of this life, with God and his saincts in heauen, so they had béene out of the waie, for then all had béene well inough as he thought. But to let these things passe, the king this yeare sent his eldest daughter Blanch,The kings daughter ma|ried into Ger|manie. accõpanied with the earle of Summerset, the bishop of Worcester, the lord Clifford, and others, into Al|manie, which brought hir to Colin, and there with great triumph she was married to William duke of Bauier, sonne and heire to Lewes the emperour. About mid of August, the king to chastise the presum|ptuous attempts of the Welshmen, went with a great power of men into Wales, to pursue the cap|teine of the Welsh rebell Owen Glendouer, but in effect he lost his labor; for Owen conueied himselfe out of the waie, into his knowen lurking places, and (as was thought) through art magike, he caused such foule weather of winds, tempest, raine, snow,Intemperat weather. and haile to be raised, for the annoiance of the kings ar|mie, that the like had not beene heard of; in such sort, that the king was constreined to returne home, ha|uing caused his people yet to spoile and burne first a great part of the countrie. The same time, the lord Edmund of Langlie duke of Yorke departed this life, and was buried at Langlie with his brethren.The deceasse of the duke of Yorke. The Scots vnder the leding of Patrike Hepborne, of the Hales the yoonger, entring into England,Scots ouer|throwen. were ouerthrowen at Nesbit, in the marches, as in the Scotish chronicle ye may find more at large. This battell was fought the two and twentith of Iune, in this yeare of our Lord 1402.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Archembald earle Dowglas sore displeased in his mind for this ouerthrow, procured a commission to inuade England, and that to his cost, as ye may like|wise read in the Scotish histories. For at a place cal|led Homildon,Scots van|quished at Homildon. they were so fiercelie assailed by the Englishmen, vnder the leading of the lord Persie, surnamed Henrie Hotspur, and George earle of March, that with violence of the English shot they were quite vanquished and put to flight, on the Rood daie in haruest, with a great slaughter made by the Englishmen. We know that the Scotish writers note this battell to haue chanced in the yeare 1403. But we following Tho. Walsingham in this place, and other English writers, for the accompt of times, haue thought good to place it in this yeare 1402, as in the same writers we find it. There were slaine of men of estimation, sir Iohn Swinton,The number slaine. sir Adam Gordon, sir Iohn Leuiston, sir Alexander Ramsie of Dalehousie, and three and twentie knights, besides ten thousand of the commons: and of prisoners a|mong other were these, Mordacke earle of Fife,Prisoners taken. son to the gouernour Archembald earle Dowglas, which in the fight lost one of his eies, Thomas erle of Mur|rey, Robert earle of Angus, and (as some writers haue) the earles of Atholl & Menteith, with fiue hun|dred other of meaner degrées. After this, the lord Persie, hauing bestowed the prisoners in suer kée|ping, entered Tiuidale, wasting and destroieng the whole countrie,The castell of Cocklawes besieged by y^e lord Persie. and then besieged the castell of Coc|klawes, whereof was capteine one sir Iohn Gren|low, who compounded with the Englishmen, that if the castell were not succoured within three moneths, then he would deliuer it into their hands.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The first two moneths passed, and no likelihood of rescue appeared; but yer the third moneth was expi|red, EEBO page image 521 the Englishmen being sent for to go with the king into Wales, raised their siege and departed, lea|uing the noble men prisoners with the earle of Nor|thumberland, and with his sonne the lord Persie, to keepe them to the kings vse. In this meane while, such as misliked with the doctrine and ceremonies then vsed in the church,The profes|sors of Wic| [...]lifs doctrine. ceassed not to vtter their con|sciences, though in secret, to those in whome they had affiance. But as in the like cases it commonlie hap|neth, they were bewraied by some that were thought chieflie to fauour their cause, as by sir Lewes Clif|ford knight, who hauing leaned to the doctrine a long time, did now (as Thomas Walsingham writeth) dis|close all that he knew vnto the archbishop of Can|turburie, to shew himselfe as it were to haue erred rather of simplenesse and ignorance, than of froward|nesse or stubborne malice. The names of such as taught the articles and conclusions mainteined by those which then they called Lollards or heretikes, the said sir Lewes Clifford gaue in writing to the said archbishop.Sir Lewes Clifford be|wraieth his fellowes. Edmund Mortimer earle of March, pri|soner with Owen Glendouer, whether for irkesom|nesse of cruell captiuitie, or feare of death, or for what other cause, it is vncerteine, agréed to take part with Owen,The earle of March mari|eth the daugh|ter of Owen Glendouer. against the king of England, and tooke to wife the daughter of the said Owen.