Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The duke of Yorke, well knowing that the queene would spurne against all this, caused both hir and hir sonne to be sent for by the king. But she as woont ra|ther to rule, than to be ruled, and thereto counselled by the dukes of Excester and Summerset, not onelie denied to come, but also assembled a great armie, in|tending to take the king by fine force out of the lords hands. The protector in London, hauing knowledge of all these dooings, assigned the duke of Norffolke, and erle of Warwike his trustie fréends to be about the king, while he with the earles of Salisburie and Rutland, and a conuenient number departed out of London the second daie of December northward, and appointed the earle of March his eldest sonne to follow him with all his power. The duke came to his castell of Sandall beside Wakefield on Christmasse éeuen, & there began to make muster of his tenants and fréends. The quéene there of ascerteined, determi|ned to cope with him ye [...] his succour were come.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Now she, hauing in hir companie the prince hir sonne the dukes of Excester and Summerset, the earle of Deuonshire, the lord Clifford, the lord Ros, and in effect all the lords of the north parts, with eightéene thousand men, or (as some write) two and twentie thousand, marched from Yorke to Wake|field, and bad base to the duke, euen before his castell gates. He hauing with him not fullie fiue thousand persons, contrarie to the minds of his faithfull coun|cellors would needs issue foorth to fight with his eni|mies. The duke of Summerset and the quéenes part, casting vpon their most aduantage, appointed the lord Clifford to lie in one stale, and the earle of Wil|shire in another, and the duke with other to kéepe the maine battell. The duke of Yorke with his people des|cended downe the hill in good order and arraie, and was suffered to passe on towards the maine bat|tell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But when he was in the plaine field betweene his castell and the towne of Wakefield,The battell at Wakefield. he was inuiro|ned on euerie side, like fish in a net, so that though he fought manfullie,The duke of Yorke slaine. yet was he within halfe an houre slaine and dead, and his whole armie discomfited: with him died of his trustie fréends, his two bastard vncles, sir Iohn and sir Hugh Mortimers, sir Dauie Hall, sir Hugh Hastings, sir Thomas Neuill, Willi|am and Thomas Aparre, both brethren;Onelie seauen hundred sou|therne men saith Whe [...]|hamsted. and two thou|sand and eight hundred others, whereof manie were yoong gentlemen, and heires of great parentage in the south parts, whose kin reuenged their deaths with|in foure moneths next, as after shall appeare.