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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The duke of Yorke hauing aforehand obteined an absolution of the pope, in discharge of his oth before taken, did now discouer his stomach against the duke of Summerset. But when the king was amen|ded againe, and resumed to him his former gouerne|ment, either of his owne mind, or by the queenes pro|curement,The duke of Summers [...]t set at libertie. the duke of Summerset was set at liber|tie; by which doing great enuie and displeasure grew. That notwithstanding, the quéene (which then bare the chiefe rule) caused the duke of Summerset to be pre|ferred to the capteineship of Calis,Made depu|tie of Calis. wherwith not on|lie the commons, but also manie of the nobilitie were greatlie gréeued and offended, saieng, that he had lost Normandie, and so would he doo Calis.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The duke of Yorke and his adherents, perceiuing that neither exhortation nor charging him with his crimes preuailed against the duke of Summerset,The duke of Yorke assem|bled an armie. they meant to mend the matter by open war: & soone after he being in the marches of Wales, accompani|ed with his speciall friends, the earles of Salisburie, and Warwike, the lord Cobham, and others, assem|bled a power, and in warlike maner marched to|ward London. The king informed hereof, assembled likewise a great host, and meaning to méet with the duke, rather in the north parts than about London, where it was thought he had too manie friends, he ac|companied with the dukes of Summerset and Buc|kingham, the earles of Penbroke, Stafford, Nor|thumberland, Whethamsted. Deuonshire, Dorset, and Wilshire, the lords Clifford, Sudlie, Berneis, Roos, and others, be|ing in all aboue two thousand men of warre,The king with two thousand. depar|ted from Westminster the twentith, or (as some haue) the one and twentith of Maie, and laie the first night at Wadford.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Of whose dooings the duke of Yorke by espials ha|uing still aduertisement, with all his power being not past thrée thousand men (as some write) coasted the countrie,The duke with thrée thousand. and came to saint Albons the third daie next insuing. The king there had pight his standard in a place called Goselow, otherwise Sandiford, in saint Peters street: the lord Clifford kept the barri|ers of the towne, to stop, that the duke being assem|bled in Keie field, should not enter the towne. Abr. Fl. [...] pag. [...] 677. in [...] ¶ The duke of Yorke (saith one moderne chronographer) knowing the strength made against him, abiding in the field aforesaid, from seuen of the clocke in the morning vntill it was almost ten of the clocke with|out anie stroke smitten on either part, by the aduise of his councell sent vnto the king vnder these words following.

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