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In the meane time,The earle of Wilshire and other spoiled Newberie. the earle of Wilshire treasu|ror of England, the lord Scales & the lord Hunger|ford went to Newberie, which belonged to the duke of Yorke, and there made inquisition of all them that in anie wise had fauoured the said duke; wherof some were found guiltie, and were drawen, hanged, and quartered, and all the inhabitants of the towne were spoiled of their goods. From thense the e [...]rle of Wil|shire went to Southampton; where,The earle of Wilshire state ouer the seas. vnder colour to take the earle of Warwike, he armed fiue great ca|racks of Iene with souldiers, taking vittels of the kings price without paiment, and put a great part of his treasure into the said caracks, and after sailed a|bout in the sea, and at last stale into Dutchland, sen|ding backe againe his souldiers into England.Priuie seales for monie. Then were the kings priuie seales directed to all bishops, abbats, priors, and other states, to lend the king mo|nie, therewith to wage souldiers to kéepe the sea|coasts.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the kings nauie was gained, and his cap|teins (as before yee haue heard) on the sea taken; the lords lieng at Calis, being aduertised from the lord Fauconbridge (who after the taking of Montford laie still in Kent) that the people of that countrie and other parts were altogither bent in their fauor [and no lesse addicted to doo them seruice both with bodie and goods, Abr. Flem. than the Irishmen séemed to be at their re|ceiuing of the said duke of Yorke, and his yoonger sonne Edmund earle of Rutland, whom they so high|lie honoured, that they offered to liue and die in their quarell] they conceiued therevpon so great hope in their fréends within the realme, that they determi|ned to passe the sea, and therewith entring their ships with fiftéene hundred men landed all at Sandwich.

[But it is to be read in a late writer, Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 697. that the com|mons of Kent dreading the like vengeance towards them, as fell vpon them of Newberie, sent priuilie messengers to Calis to the foresaid erles,The men of Kent sent to Calis for the earles. beseeching them in all hast possible to come to their succour. Wherevpon the said earles sent ouer into Kent the lord Fauconbridge, to know if their déeds would ac|cord with their woods: so that anon the people of Kent and the other shires adioining, resorted to the said lord Fauconbridge in great number. Where|fore when the earles knew the willing harts of those people, they prepared to come into this land. Against whose comming, a long ballet was fixed vpon the gates of Canturburie, made in fauour of the duke of Yorke and the said earles, beginning thus: In the daie of fast and spirituall affliction, the celestiall in|fluence of bodies transitorie, &c.]

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