Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There also came sir William Stanleie accom|panied with a few persons. And after that the earle and he had communed no long time togither; he re|uerted to his souldiors, whom he had assembled togi|ther to serue the earle: which from thence departed to Lichfield, and lay without the walles in his campe all the night. The next morning he entered into the towne, and was with all honor like a prince recei|ued. A daie or two before, the lord Stanleie, hauing in his band almost fiue thousand men, lodged in the EEBO page image 754 same towne. But hearing that the erle of Richmond was marching thitherward,The lord Stanleies de|uise to auoid suspicion of K. Richard and to saue his sonnes life. gaue to him place, dis|lodging him and his, and repaired to a towne called Aderstone, there abiding the comming of the earle. And this wilie fox did this act, to auoid all suspicion on king Richards part.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 For the lord Stanleie was afraid, least if he should séeme openlie to be a fautor or aider to the earle his sonne in law, before the day of the battell, that king Richard, which yet vtterlie did not put in him diffi|dence and mistrust, would put to some cruell death his sonne and heire apparant George lord Strange, whome king Richard (as you haue heard before) kept with him as a pledge or hostage, to the intent that the lord Stanleie his father should attempt nothing pre|iudiciall to him. King Richard at this season kéeping his house in the castle of Notingham, was informed that the earle of Richmond, with such vanished men as were fled out of England to him, were now arri|ued in Wales, and that all things necessarie to his enterprise were vnprouided, vnpurueied, and verie weake, nothing méet to withstand the power of such as the king had appointed to méet him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This rumor so inflated his mind, that in maner disdeining to heare speake of so small a companie,K. Richard contemneth the earle and his power. he determined at the first to take little or no regard to this so small a sparkle, declaring the earle to be in|nocent and vnwise, bicause that he rashly attempted such a great enterprise with so small and thin a num|ber of warlike persons: and therefore he gaue a defi|nitiue sentence, that when he came to that point that he should be compelled to fight against his will, hée either should be apprehended aliue, or else by all like|lihood he should of necessitie come to a shamefull con|fusion: and that he trusted to be shortlie doone by sir Walter Herbert, and Rice ap Thomas, which then ruled Wales with equall power and like authoritie.