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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Wherevnto the prince boldlie answered, saieng;
To recouer my fathers kingdome & heritage, from his father and grandfather to him, and from him af|ter him to me lineallie descended.At which words king Edward said nothing,Prince Ed|ward mur|thered. but with his hand thrust him from him, or (as some saie) stroke him with his gantlet; whom incontinentlie, George duke of Cla|rence, Richard duke of Glocester, Thomas Greie marquesse Dorcet, and William lord Hastings that stood by, suddenlie murthered: for the which cruell act, the more part of the dooers in their latter daies dranke of the like cup, by the righteous iustice and due punishment of God. His bodie was homelie in|terred with the other simple corpses, in the church of the monasterie of blacke monks in Teukesburie.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the victorie was thus atchiued, the king re|paired to the abbeie church there, to giue God thanks for that good successe, which it had pleased him to blesse him with: and there finding a great number of his enimies, that were fled thither to saue them|selues, he gaue them all his free pardon; albeit there was no franchise there for rebels, but that he might haue commanded them to haue béene drawen foorth without breach of anie liberties of that church. He granted also that the dead bodies, as well of the lords as other, slaine in that battell, might be buried in the same church, or else where it pleased their freends or seruants, without anie quartering & hea|ding, or setting vp the heads or quarters in any pub|like places. [O the patience and clemencie of this good king, who (besides the putting vp of wrongs doone to him by violence of foes without vengeance) fréelie forgaue the offendors, and did so honorablie temper his affections!]