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Compare 1577 edition: 1 This politike prouision for danger that might haue insued (although there was none that waie foorth) serued yet before the end of the battell, to great good purpose. For when those speares perfectlie vn|derstood that there was no ambush within the wood, and withall saw conuenient time to imploie them|selues, they came and brake with full randon vpon the duke of Summerset and his voward a flanke, in so violent wise vpon the sudden, that where they had before inough to doo with those with whom they were first matched,The vãtgard of the lords distressed. now with this new charge giuen on them by those two hundred speares, they were not a little dismaied; and to conclude, so discouraged, that streightwaie they tooke them to flight. Some fled in|to the parke, other into the m [...]adow there at hand, some into the lanes, & some hid them in ditches, each one making what shift he could, by the which he ho|ped best to escape: but manie neuerthelesse were beaten downe, slaine, and taken prisoners.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The duke of Summerset séeing this vnfortunate chance, as some write, turned to the midle-ward, and there finding the lord Wenlocke standing still, after he had reuiled him,A terrible stroke and called him traitor, with his ax he stroke the braines out of his head. The duke of Glocester pursuing after them that fled with the duke of Summerset to their campe, where the rest of their armie stood, entred the trench, and after him the king, where he bare himselfe so knightlie, that therevpon the queenes part went to wracke, and was put to flight; the king and other falling in chase after them, so that manie were slaine, but especiallie at a mill in the meadow fast by the towne a great sort were drowned. Manie ran towards the towne, some to the church, and diuerse to the abbeie, and other to other places, where they thought best to saue them|selues. [This was the last fought field or pight bat|tell tried betwéene the potentats of this land in king Edward the fourths daies (which chanced on the fourth of Maie, Abr. Flem. being saturdaie, in the eleauenth yeare of his reigne, and in the yeare of our Lord, 1471) as Anglorum praelia affirmeth, saieng:

Vltima postremae locus est Teuxburia pugnae.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Edw. Hall. Prince Ed|ward taken.In the winning of the campe, such as stood to it were slaine out of hand Prince Edward was taken as he fled towards the towne, by sir Richard Crofts, and kept close. In the field and chase were slaine,Nobles [...] the lord Iohn of Summerset, called marquesse Dorset, Thomas Courtenie earle of Deuonshire, sir Iohn Delues, sir Edward Hampden, sir Robert Whiting|ham, and sir Iohn Leukener, with thrée thousand o|thers. After the field was ended, proclamation was made, that whosoeuer could bring foorth prince Ed|ward aliue or dead, should haue an annuitie of a hun|dred pounds during his life, and the princes life to be saued, if he were brought foorth aliue.Sir Richard Crofts deli|uereth the prince in hope that his life should haue béene saued. Sir Richard Crofts, nothing mistrusting the kings promise, brought foorth his prisoner prince Edward, being a faire and well proportioned yoong gentleman; whom when king Edward had well aduised, he demanded of him, how he durst so presumptuouslie enter into his realme with banner displaied.

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