Compare 1577 edition: 1 Also the king of Romanes, and prince Edward sent their defiance to the barons at the same time in writing vnder their seales, for that the barons in their letter to the king, had burthened them and o|ther with misleading the king with vntrue informa|tions and sinister counsell. Matth. West. Thus as they writ to and fro such nipping letters, all the treatie of peace was forgotten and laid aside, so that they prepared to battell. The king had indéed the greater number of armed men, but manie of them were vnfaithfull, and cared not greatlie though the losse fell to his side, and so whilest they went to it without order, & vnaduised|lie, they fought at aduenture, & continued but faintly. N. Triuet. The ordering of the battels. His capteines made thrée battels of their armie, the lord Edward led the foreward, and with him Willi|am de Ualence earle of Penbroke, and Iohn de Warren erle of Surrey and Sussex. In the second, the K. of Almaine, with his sonne Henrie were cheef|taines. The third the king gouerned himselfe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The barons diuided their host into foure battels, the first was vnder the gouernment of the lord Hen|rie de Montfort and others. The second was led by the lord Gilbert de Clare, the lord Iohn Fitz Iohn, and the lord William de Mountchensie. The third, in which the Londoners were placed, the lord Nicho|las de Segraue ruled. The fourth was led by Si|mon Montfort earle of Leicester himselfe, and one Thomas de Peuelston. Thus being ordered, on the fourtéenth of Maie being Wednesdaie, they ioined in fight, and at the first incounter,The battels ioine. the L. Hen|rie EEBO page image 268 de Hastings, Chron. Dunst. the lord Geffrey de Lucie, & Hum|frey de Bohun the yoonger were wounded, and the Londoners forthwith were beaten backe:Prince Ed|ward pursu|eth the Lon|doners. for prince Edward so fiercelie assailed them, that they were not able to abide the brunt. He hated them indeed aboue all other, namelie for that of late they had mis|vsed his mother, reuiling hir, and throwing durt and stones at hir, when she passed the bridge (as before ye haue heard) which wrong and abuse by them com|mitted was peraduenture on their parts forgotten, but of prince Edward (as it séemeth) remembred, for

Puluere qui laedit, sed laesus marmore scribit.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon prince Edward now to be reuenged of them, after they began to flie, most egerlie following them, chased & slue them by heaps. But whilest he se|parated himselfe by such earnest following of the Londoners too farre from the residue of the kings armie, he was the onelie cause of the losse of that field: for the earle of Leicester, perceiuing that the prince with the chiefest force of the kings armie was thus gone after the Londoners (of whom he made no great account) he exhorted his people to shew their valiancie at that instant, and so comming vpon his aduersaries with great courage,The kings part put to the worse. Matt. Westm. Nic. Triuer. in a moment put them to flight. There were taken the king of Almaine, the lords Iohn de Burgh and Philip Bas|set with all other the chiefest that were about the king, but the king himselfe retired with those few a|bout him that were left, into the priorie of Lewes, and other there were that withdrew into the castell. The barons pursuing them, entered the towne, and tooke or slue so manie as they found within the castell and priorie. At length, prince Edward returned from the chase of the Londoners, whom he had pursued for the space of foure miles, and finding the field lost, be|gan a new battell: Matth. Paris. but the earle of Surrie, Wil|liam de Valence, and Guy de Lucignan, with Hugh Bigod and others,Seuen hun|dred hath A|bington. Prince Ed|ward com|meth backe to his father. hauing with them thrée hundred armed men, streightwaies fled vnto the castell of Pemsie. Prince Edward then perceiuing slaughter to be made on each hand, cast about the towne, and with his companie got into the priorie to his father.