Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ Other write otherwise of this battell at Lewes, Polydor. affirming, that not onelie the king of Romans, but also king Henrie himselfe, hauing his owne horsse thrust through on both sides, was taken, and likewise his sonne prince Edward with other on their side, to the number of fiue and twentie barons and banne|rets: and that moreouer, there died on the kings side that day in the battell and chase, six thousand and fiue hundred men, as Polydor noteth: howbeit, Richard Southwell saith, there died on both parts onlie 3400. But Matth. Westminster writeth, that as the report went, there died fiue thousand on both sides, and a|mongst other, these he nameth as chéefe, William de Wilton one of the kings iustices, & the lord Fouke Fitz Waren a baron that tooke the kings part. On the barons side, Matth. West [...] Lords ta [...] on the kings side. the lord Rafe Heringander a baron also, and William Blunt the earles standardbearer. Of them that were taken on the kings side, beside such as before are recited, we find these named, Hum|frie de Bohun earle of Hereford, William lord Bar|dolfe, Robert lord of Tatshale, Roger lord Some|rie, Henrie lord Percie, Iohn de Balioll, Robert de Bruis, and Iohn Comin, with other barons of Scot|land, hauing lost all their footmen whom they had brought with them to the kings aid.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, it should appeare by some writers, Fabian. N. Triue [...]. Matth. Wes [...] that the king being thus in captiuitie, was constreined to make a new grant, that the statutes of Oxford shuld stand in force, and if any were thought vnreasonable, the same should be reformed by foure Noble men of the realme of France, two of the spiritualtie and two of the temporaltie. And if those foure could not agrée, then the earle of Anton and the duke of Burgoigne shuld be iudges in the matter. ¶But if either those or the other were appointed to be arbitrators, like it is, that the former report touching the successe of the battell is true; for if both the king and his sonne had béene taken prisoners in the field, the barons would suerlie haue constreined him to haue consented to the obseruance of the statutes, without putting the same in compromise, to be altered at the discretion of any arbitrators, and namelie strangers.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But howsoeuer it was, on the tuesday before the Ascension day, peace was proclaimed in London,Peace pro|claimed. be|tweene the king and the barons; and wheras the king either by constreint for safegard of himselfe or his fréends, either vpon assurance of the barons promise, committed himselfe vnto the companie of the same barons, at their comming with him to London they went from this last agréement, and foorthwith deui|sed other ordinances as thus. They ordeined,A new [...] of the [...] that two earles and a bishop, which being elected out by the communaltie, should choose to them nine other persons, and of these, three of them should still re|maine about the king, and by their order and the o|ther nine, all things should be gouerned both in the court and in the realme. They constreined the king and his sonne prince Edward (menacing to depose the one, and to kéepe the other in perpetuall prison) to consent and agrée to this last ordinance: and so the earles of Leicester and Glocester, and the bishop of Chichester were ordeined there the cheefe rulers, and letters sent with all spéed vnto the cardinall Sabi|nensis the popes legat, and to the king of France, to signifie to them, that the compromise agréed vpon at Lewes was vtterlie reuoked, and that a new peace in freendlie wise was concluded.