Compare 1577 edition: 1 And verelie this was thought to be doone not with|out great cause that mooued him thereto: for where|as the more part of his soldiours consisted of the countrie people,He was pro|uided of ill souldiors that so vndutifulli [...] to deale with him would be induced. who with forged tales and wicked surmises were easilie led to beléeue whatsoeuer was reported in fauor of the rebels, and disfauor of such as were then chiefe councellors to the king, against whome they pretended to rise (although there was no reasonable occasion leading them therevnto) it was greatlie to be suspected, least they might thorough some traitorous practise haue béene induced to forget their dutifull allegiance to their souereigne, and soul|diorlike obedience to their leaders, insomuch that the capteins of the rebels were persuaded (and some of them reported no lesse) that they might haue fought with the duke of Norffolke, and the earle of Shre|wesburie, on this hither side of the riuer of Dun, e|uen with their owne men, not néeding to haue brought a man of their armie with them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Therefore it was thought, that the oth which the earle of Shrewesburie in that sort receiued before all his people there openlie in field,The oth of the earle of Shre [...]wesburie in presence of the people ne|cessarie. serued to great pur|pose; to put out of his soldiours wauering heads all such lewd expectation that he would turne to the eni|mies, staieng thereby their fickle minds; sith they were now assured, that he being their chiefteine meant no dissimulation. A matter trulie of no small importance, considering the fauor which the com|mons bare towards him, and the opinion they had conceiued of his high prowesse; so that which waie he inclined, it was thought verelie the game were likelie to go. But now after the king was aduertised of that perilous commotion of the northerne men, he appointed not onlie the said earle of Shrewesburie to raise a power to resist them: but also ordeined the duke of Norffolke his lieutenant generall, with the marquesse of Excester,The duke of Norffolke the kings li [...]ute|nant. and the said earle of Shre|wesburie, the earles of Huntington and Rutland, accompanied with a mightie power to go against them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 These lords raising such retinues of souldiers and men of warre as were to them assigned, made for|ward to the place where the armie of the rebels was then incamped, which was beyond the towne of Doncaster, in the high waie towards Yorke. But EEBO page image 943 first the said earle of Shrewesburie, with the earles of Huntington and Rutland, and such other that were next adioining to those parties, with their pow|ers assembled out of the shires of Salop, Stafford, Leicester, Rutland, Notingham, and Derbie, came to a place in Notingham shire called Blithlow, and there taking the musters of their people, streight|waies passed foorth to Doncaster, and appointed cer|teine bands of their men, to lie in places where anie [...]oords or passages laie ouer the riuer of Dun, that runneth by the northside of Doncaster, to staie the e|nimies if they should attempt to come ouer. Short|lie after came the duke of Norffolke, and finallie the marquesse of Excester with a iollie companie of westerne men, well and perfectlie appointed.