Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 One of hir esquiers named William Maidstone,Williã Maid|stone esquier offred to fight in his ladies quarrell. hearing what answer his ladie and mistresse pro|pounded, cast downe his hood, and proffered in hir cause the combat. The duke likewise cast downe his hood, readie by battell to cleare his innocencie. But yet the kings sonne lord Thomas of Lancaster ar|rested him, and put him vnder safe kéeping in the Tower, till it were further knowne what order should be taken with him, and in the meane time were all his goods confiscate. The same time was Thomas Mowbraie earle marshall accused,The earle marshall accused. as pri|uie to the purpose of the duke of Yorke, touching the withdrawing of the earle of March his children, who confessed indéed that he knew of the dukes purpose: but yet in no wise gaue his consent therevnto, and therefore besought the king to be good and gratious lord vnto him for concealing the matter, and so he ob|teined pardon of that offense.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The king had assembled at the same time the most part of the nobilitie at London, to consult with them for diuerse weightie matters, concerning the state of the common-wealth, and about some aid of mo|nie which he required: but the lords shewed them|selues not willing to satisfie his request.The K. wan|teth monie & can get none of the lords. He therfore caused the spirituall lords as well as the temporall, to méet at S. Albons in the Lent season, about the same matter; but yet obteined not his purpose, by reason the barons were sore against him, and so at length on Palme sundaie they went their waie, each man to his home, hauing gratified the king in no|thing concerning his demand. In the meane time, to wit the fiftéenth of March at a place in Wales called Huske, in a conflict fought betwixt the Welshmen EEBO page image 528 and certeine of the princes companie, the sonne of Owen Glendouer was taken, and fiftéene hundred Welshmen taken and slaine. Also in Maie about the feast daie of S. Dunstane, was the chancellor of the said Owen taken prisoner, and a great number of o|ther taken and slaine. The prisoners were brought vp to London, where the chancellor was committed to safe kéeping in the Tower.

Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wals. Hypod. pag. 159.¶This was a shrewd discomfiture to the Welsh by the English, on whome sinister lot lowred, at such time as more than a thousand of them were slaine in a hot skirmish; and such shamefull villanie executed vpon the carcasses of the dead men by the Welsh|women; as the like (I doo beléeue) hath neuer or sil|dome beene practised. For though it was a cruell déed of Tomyris quéene of the Massagets in Scy|thia, Iust. lib. 1. Herod. lib. 1. Val. Max. lib. 8. cap. 7, against whome when Cyrus the great king of Persia came, and had slaine hir sonne, she by hir poli|cie trained him into such streicts, that she slue him and all his host; and causing a great vessell to be fil|led with the bloud of Cyrus and other Persians, did cast his head thereinto, saieng; Bloud thou hast thir|sted and now drinke thereof thy fill: againe, though it was a cruell déed of Fuluia the wife of Marcus Antonius (at whose commandement Popilius cut off the head and h [...]nds of that golden mouthed orator Tullie, which afterwards were nailed vp ouer the place of common plées at Rome) to hold in hir hands the toong of that father of eloquence cut out of his head after the same was parted from his shoulders, and to pricke it all ouer with pins and néedels: yet neither the crueltie of Tomyris nor yet of Fuluia is comparable to this of the Welshwomen; which is worthie to be recorded to the shame of a sex preten|ding the title of weake vessels, and yet raging with such force of fiercenesse and barbarisme. For the dead bodies of the Englishmen, being aboue a thousand lieng vpon the ground imbrued [...]n their owne bloud, was a sight (a man would thinke) greeuous to looke vpon, and so farre from exciting and stirring vp af|fections of crueltie; that it should rather haue moo|ued the beholders to commiser [...]tion and mercie: yet did the women of Wales cut off their priuities, and put one part thereof into the mouthes of euerie dead man, in such sort that the cullions hoong downe to their chins; and not so contented, they did cut off their noses and thrust them into their tailes as they laie on the ground mangled and defaced. This was a verie ignominious déed, and a woorsse not commit|ted among the barbarous: which though it make the reader to read it, and the hearer to heare it, ashamed: yet bicause it was a thing doone in open sight, and left testified in historie; I see little reason [...]hie it should not be imparted in our mother toong to the knowledge of our owne countrimen, as well as vn|to strangers in a language vnknowne. And thus much by waie of notifieng the inhumanitie and de|testable demeanour of those Welshwomen, after the conflict betwéene the English and the Welsh, whereof desultorie mention is made before pag. 520, where Edmund Mortimer earle of March was ta|ken prisoner.