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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 19 of 24: Henrie the seauenth, sonne to Ed|mund earle of Richmond, which Edmund was brother by the moothers side to Henrie the sixt.
Snippet: 38 of 277 (1587, Volume 6, p. 766)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Then both the armies ioined and fought verie earnestlie, in so much that the Almains,The armies ioine. being tried and expert men of warre, were in all things, as well in strength as policie, equals and matches to the Englishmen. But as for Martine Sward their co|ronell, few of the Englishmen,Martine Sward a péerelesse warrior. either in valiant cou|rage, or strength, and nimblenesse of bodie was to him comparable. On the other side, the Irishmen, although they fought manfullie, and stucke to it va|liantlie; yet bicause they were (after the maner of their countrie) almost naked, without anie conuena|ble furniture of armour, they were striken downe and slaine like dull & brute beasts, which was a great discouragement to the residue of the companie. Thus they fought for a space so sore and so egerlie on both parts, that no man could well iudge to whome the victorie was like to incline.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 19 of 24: Henrie the seauenth, sonne to Ed|mund earle of Richmond, which Edmund was brother by the moothers side to Henrie the sixt.
Snippet: 39 of 277 (1587, Volume 6, p. 766)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But at length the kings fore-ward being full of people, and well fortified with wings,The kings power ouer|commeth. which onelie both began and continued the fight, set vpon the ad|uersaries with such force and violence, that first they oppressed and killed such capiteins, one by one, as re|sisted their might and puissance: and after that, put all the other to flight, the which were either apprehen|ded as prisoners in their running awaie, or else EEBO page image 767 slaine and brought vnto confusion in a small mo|ment. Now when this battell was ended, and fought out to the extremitie, then it well appeared, what high prowesse, what manfull stomachs, what hardie and couragious hearts rested in the kings aduersaries. For there the cheefe capteins, the earle of Lincolne, and the lord Louell,All the cap|tein [...] of the aduerse part against the king slaine. sir Thomas Broughton, Mar|tine Sward, and the lord Gerardine capteine of the Irishmen were slaine, and found dead in the verie places which they had chosen aliue to fight in, not gi|uing one foot of ground to their aduersaries.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 19 of 24: Henrie the seauenth, sonne to Ed|mund earle of Richmond, which Edmund was brother by the moothers side to Henrie the sixt.
Snippet: 40 of 277 (1587, Volume 6, p. 767)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Howbeit some affirme, that the lord Louell tooke his horsse, and would haue fled ouer Trent, but was not able to recouer the further side for the highnesse of the banke, and so was drowned in the riuer. There were killed at that battell, with their fiue capteins before rehersed,

The number of the slaine that were a|gainst the king.

Lambert and his maister Simond takẽ.

of that partie about foure thousand. Of the kings part there were not halfe of them which fought in the fore-ward, and gaue the onset slaine or hurt. Then was Lambert the yoongling, which was falslie reported to be the sonne of the duke of Cla|rence, and his maister sir Richard Simond priest both taken, but neither of them put to death; bicause that Lambert was but an innocent, and of yeares insufficient of himselfe to doo any such enterprise; and the other was pardoned of life, bicause he was a priest, and annointed man; but yet was committed to perpetuall prison.

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