Compare 1577 edition: 1 Whether the marques suffered him to passe by so, with his good will or no, diuerse haue diuerslie con|iectured. Some thinke that it lay not in the power of the marques greatlie to annoie him, both for that the king was well beloued in those parties; & againe, all the lords & commons there for the most part were to|wards the earle of Northumberland, and without him or his commandement they were not willing to stirre. And therefore the earle in sitting still and not moouing to and fro, was thought to doo king Edward as good seruice as if he had come to him, and raised people to assist him; for diuerse happilie that should haue come with him, remembring displeasures past, would not haue béene so faithfull as the earle him|selfe, if it had come to the iumpe of anie hazard of battell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About Wakefield and the parts there adioining, some companie of his freends came to him, whereby his power was increased; but nothing in such num|bers as he looked for. From Wakefield he crossed on the left hand, so to come againe into the high waie, and came to Doncaster,K. Edward commeth to Northamptõ and from thence vnto No|tingham. Here came to him sir William Parre, and sir Iames Harrington, with six hundred men well armed and appointed: also there came to him sir Tho|mas Burgh, Edw. Hall. & sir Thomas Montgomerie with their aids, which caused him at their first comming to make proclamation in his owne name, to wit, of K. Edward the fourth, boldlie affirming to him, that they would serue no man but a king.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Whilest he remained at Notingham, and also before he came there, he sent abroad diuerse of his auaunt courrers to discouer the countrie, and to vn|derstand if there were anie power gathered against him. Some of them that were thus sent, approached to Newarke, and vnderstood that within the towne there, the duke of Excester, the earle of Oxenford, the lord Bardolfe,The duke of Excester and a power a [...] Newarke. and other were lodged with a great power to the number of foure thousand men, which they had assembled in Essex, Norffolke, Suffolke, and in the shires of Cambridge, Huntington, and Lincolne. The duke of Excester, and the earle of Ox|enford, with other the chéefe capteins, aduertised that king Edwards foreriders had béene afore the towne in the euening, supposed verefie that he and his whole armie were comming towards them.