Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But the same lord Clifford not satisfied herewith, came to the place where the dead corpse of the duke of Yorke laie, caused his head to be striken off, and set on it a crowne of paper, fixed it on a pole, and pre|sented it to the quéene, not lieng farre from the field, in great despite, at which great reioising was shew|ed: but they laughed then that shortlie after lamen|ted, and were glad then of other mens deaths that knew not their owne to be so néere at hand. ¶Some write that the duke was taken aliue, Whethamsted and in derision caused to stand vpon a molehill, on whose head they put a garland in steed of a crowne, which they had fa|shioned and made of sedges or bulrushes; and hauing so crowned him with that garland, they knéeled downe afore him (as the Iewes did vnto Christ) in scorne, saieng to him;
Haile king without rule, haile king without heritage, haile duke and prince with|out people or possessions. And at length hauing thus scorned him with these and diuerse other the like de|spitefull words, they stroke off his head, which (as yee haue heard) they presented to the quéene.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Manie déemed that this miserable end chanced to the duke of Yorke, as a due punishment for breaking his oth of allegiance vnto his souereigne lord king Henrie: but others held him discharged thereof, bi|cause he obteined a dispensation from the popeA purchase of Gods cursse with ye popes blessing. by such suggestion as his procurators made vnto him, whereby the same oth was adiudged void, as that which was receiued vnaduisedlie, to the preiudice of himselfe, and disheriting of all his posteritie. After this victorie by the quéene,The priso|ners beheaded the earle of Salisburie and all the prisoners were sent to Pomfret, and there be|headed, whose heads (togither with the duke of Yorkes head) were conueied to Yorke, and there set on poles ouer the gate of the citie, in despite of them and their linage. The earle of March,The earle of March now duke of Yorke. now after the death of his father, verie duke of Yorke, lieng at Glocester, was woonderfullie amazed, when the sor|rowfull newes of these mishaps came vnto him: but EEBO page image 660 after comfort giuen to him by his faithfull louers and assured alies, he remooued to Shrewesburie, de|claring to the inhabitants of that towne, and to them of the other townes in those parties the murther of his father, the ieopardie of himselfe, and the present ruine of the common-wealth.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The people on the marches of Wales, for the fa|uour which they bare to the Mortimers linage, more gladlie offered him their aid and assistance than he could desire the same; so that he had incontinentlie a puissant armie, to the number of thrée and twentie thousand, readie to go against the quéene, and the murtherers of his father. But when he was setting forward,The earle of Penbroke. newes was brought to him, that Iasper earle of Penbroke halfe brother to king Henrie, and Iames Butler earle of Ormund and Wilshire, had assembled a great number of Welsh and Irish peo|ple to take him: he herewith quickned, retired backe and met with his enimies in a faire plaine, néere to Mortimers crosse,The battell of Mortimers crosse. not far from Hereford east, on Candlemasse daie in the morning. At which time the sunne (as some write) appeared to the earle of March like thrée sunnes, and suddenlie ioined altogither in one. Upon which sight he tooke such courage, that he fiercelie setting on his enimies, put them to flight: and for this cause men imagined, that he gaue the sunne in his full brightnesse for his badge or cogni|sance.The cogni|sãce of bright sunne. Of his enimies were left dead on the ground thrée thousand and eight hundred.