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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 King Henrie was a good horsseman that day, for he rode so fast awaie that no man might ouertake him;King Henrie fled. and yet he was so néere pursued, that certeine of his henchmen were taken, their horsses trapped in blue veluet, and one of them had on his head the said king Henries helmet, or rather (as may be thought, & as some say) his high cap of estate, called Abacot, gar|nished with two rich crownes, which was presented to king Edward at Yorke the fourth day of Maie. The duke of Summerset was incontinentlie behea|ded at Exham;The duke of Summerset beheaded. the other lords and knights were had to Newcastell, and there (after a little respit) were likewse put to death. Beside these, diuerse other, to the number of fiue and twentie, were executed at Yorke, and in other places.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Sir Humfrie Neuill, and William Tailbois, calling himselfe earle of Kime, sir Rafe Greie, and Richard Tunstall, with diuerse other, which esca|ped from this battell, hid themselues in secret places: but yet they kept not themselues so close, but that they were espied and taken.The earle of Kime, other|wise Angus, beheaded. The earle of Kime was apprehended in Riddesdale, and brought to New|castell, and there beheaded. Sir humfrie Neuill was taken in Holdernesse, and at Yorke lost his head. Af|ter this battell called Exham field, king Edward came to the citie of Durham, and sent from thence into Northumberland the earle of Warwike, the lord Montacute, the lords Fauconbridge & Scroope, to recouer such castels as his enimies there held, and with force defended.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 They first besieged the castell of Alnewike, which sir Peter Bressie and the Frenchmen kept,Alnewike ca|stell besieged. and in no wise would yéeld, sending for aid to the Scots. Wher|vpon sir George Dowglas erle of Angus, with thir|teene thousand chosen men, in the day time came and rescued the Frenchmen out of the castell; the Eng|lishmen looking on, which thought it much better to haue the castell without losse of their men, than to leese both the castell and their men, considering the great power of the Scots, & their owne small num|ber; and so they entered the castell and manned it. Af|ter this, they woone the castell of Dunstanburgh by force, and likewise the castell of Banburgh. Iohn Gois, seruant to the duke of Summerset, being ta|ken within Dunstanburgh, was brought to Yorke, and there beheaded.

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