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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.

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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Lambert was at length made one of the kings falconers, after that he had béene a turnebroch for a space in the kings kitchen. This battell was fought on a saturdaie being the sixtéenth daie of Iune, in this second yeere of his reigne. In this yéere died Thomas Bourchier archbishop of Canturburie: and Iohn Morton bishop of Elie,Morton bi|shop of Elie made archbi|shop of Can|turburie and chancellor of England. a man of excellent lear|ning, vertue and policie, succeeded in his place, whom Alexander pope of Rome, the sixt of that name, crea|ted a cardinall, and the king created him also chan|cellor of England. Of which pope (hauing so conue|nient a place to speake) it were a fault to omit the ambition, accompanied with other disorders vnbesée|ming a successor of Peter (but neither personallie nor locallie) as all the brood of them brag of them|selues, & will be intituled with a primasie, vsurped.

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