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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Welshmen, thinking that the earle of War|wike had come on them with all his puissance, sud|denlie as men amazed, fled: the northerne men them pursued, and slue without mercie, so that there died of the Welshmen that daie,The Welsh|men slaine. aboue fiue thousand, be|sides them that fled and were taken. The earle of Penbroke, and his brother sir Richard Herbert, with diuerse gentlemen, were taken and brought to Ban|berie, where the earle with his brother, and other gen|tlemen, to the number of ten, that were likewise ta|ken, lost their heads. But great mone was made for that noble and hardie gentleman, sir Richard Her|bert, being able for his goodlie personage and high valiancie, to haue serued the greatest prince in chri|stendome. Abr. Flem. [But what policie or puissance can either preuent or impugne the force of fate, whose law as it standeth vpon an ineuitable necessitie; so was it not to be dispensed withall; and therfore destinie hauing preordeined the maner of his deth, it was patientlie to be suffered, sith puissantlie it could not be auoided, nor politikelie preuented, nor violentlie resisted: for

—sua quen dies ad funera raptat.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Northamptonshire men, with diuerse of the northerne men by them procured, in this furie made them a capteine, called Robert Hilliard, but they na|med him Robin of Reddesdale,Robin of Reddesdale. The erle Ri|uers and his sonne behea|ded. and suddenlie came to Grafton, where they tooke the earle Riuers, father to the quéene, and his son sir Iohn Wooduile, whome they brought to Northampton, and there beheaded them both without iudgement. The king aduertised of these mischances, wrote to the shiriffes of Sum|mersetshire, and Deuonshire, that if they might by anie meanes take the lord Stafford of Southwike,The lord Stafford of Southwike beheaded. they should without delaie put him to death. Here|vpon search was made for him, till at length he was found in a village within Brentmarch, and after brought to Bridgewater where he was beheaded.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After the battell was thus fought at Hedgecote commonlie called Banberie field, the northerne men resorted toward Warwike, where the earle had ga|thered a great multitude of people, which earle recei|ued the northerne men with great gladnes, thanking sir Iohn Coniers, and other their capteins for their paines taken in his cause. The king in this meane time had assembled his power, and was comming toward the earle, who being aduertised thereof, sent to the duke of Clarence, requiring him to come and ioine with him. The duke being not farre off, with all speed repaired to the earle, and so they ioined their powers togither, and vpon secret knowledge had, that the king (bicause they were entered into termes by waie of communication to haue a peace) tooke small héed to himselfe, nothing doubting anie out|ward attempt of his enimies.

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