The next daie following, being Palmesundaie, the king in most princelie and roiall maner came to the cathedrall church of saint Peters, to heare the diuine seruice, where he followed and went in procession af|ter the maner as was then vsed, round about the churchyard, to the great ioy and comfort of all the people:How long the king con|tinued in the citie. he continued in the citie thrée daies vntill the tuesdaie then following; who when he had dined tooke his horsse and departed backe towards London, and gaue to the maior great good thanks for his inter|teinement. About foure moneths after this, in Au|gust,The duke of Clarence [...] the earle of Warwike [...] on the English coasts. the duke of Clarence and the erle of Warwike returned againe from Calis, with all their retinue, & landed some at Plimmouth, some at Dartmouth, and some at Exmouth: but all met in this citie, and from hence they all passed towards London, and at euerie place they proclamed king Henrie the sixt, Which when king Edward heard, he was very much troubled therewith: and not able then to withstand their force, he passed the seas to his brother in law the duke of Burgognie.

This yeare also, being verie troublesome, and the EEBO page image 677 gouernement vncerteine,The practise [...] knight [...] chiefe [...] at the [...] to rid [...] of [...]. men were in great per|plexities, & wist not what to doo. And among manie there was one speciallie to be remembred, who to rid himselfe out of these troubles, did deuise this practise: his name was sir William Haukesford knight, a man verie well learned in the lawes of the realme, and one of the chiefe iustices at the law: he dwelled at Annorie in Deuonshire, a gentleman of great possessions, and hauing neuer a sonne, the lord Fitz Warren, sir Iohn Sentleger, & sir William Bul|leine, who maried his daughters, were his heires. This man being one of the chiefest lawiers in the land, was dailie sought to and his counsell asked: and he considering that when the sword ruled, law had a small course, and finding by experience what fruits insue such counsell as dooth not best like the parties, was verie heauie, sorrowfull, and in great agonies.

Herevpon suddenlie he called vnto him the kee|per of his parke,In vniust or [...]urmised charge of the [...]night a|gainst the keeper of his park [...]. with whom he fell out and quareled, bicause (as he said) he was slouthfull and careles, and did not walke in the nights about the parke, but suf|fered his game to be spoiled and his deere to be stolen, wherefore he wi [...]led him to be more vigilant and carefull of his charge: and also commanded him that if he met anie man in his circuit and walke in the night time, and would not stand nor speake vnto him, he should not spare to kill him what so euer he were. This knight, hauing laid this foundation, and minding to performe what he had purposed for the ending of his dolefull daies, did in a certeine darke night secretlie conueie himselfe out of his house, and walked alone in his parke. Then the kéeper in his night walke hearing one stirring and comming to|wards him, asked who was there? but no answer was made at all.