Compare 1577 edition: 1 But although the bishops of London, Winche|ster, and Worcester instantlie required the said legat, that he would helpe to further the same peace, yet he fore rebuked them, in that they would giue their con|sent, so much to abase and bring vnder the kings roi|all power. And bicause he might not be suffered to EEBO page image 269 enter the realme, he first cited them to appeare before him at Bullongne. And whereas they séemed to con|temne his authoritie, and appeared not, he both sus|pended the said three bishops, and excommunicated the said earles of Leicester and Glocester, and their complices, with the citie of London, and the cinque ports: but the foresaid bishops, earles and barons, feigning to make their appeales to the popes consi|storie, or if néed were, vnto a generall councell and so foorth, though indeed trusting more to the temporall sword, than fearing the spirituall, they did not for|beare to saie and heare diuine seruice in churches and else-where, as before they had doone, till the comming of the cardinall Othobone.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The capteines and men of warre, whom the king had left at Tunbridge, immediatlie vpon the agrée|ment concluded betwixt the king and the barons, were commanded by the K. to depart, Matth. West. & repaire eue|rie man to his home; but they fearing the malice of their enimies, would not breake in sunder, but kéep|ing togither, went strait to Bristowe, and there re|mained, till the lord Edward the kings sonne was escaped out of captiuitie. But this is to be remem|bred, that before their departure from Tunbridge, when by report of William de Saie, N. Triuet. who escaping from the battell at Lewes, was come thither, they vnderstood how the matter had passed on both sides, and that the Londoners being chased out of the field, were lodged at Croidon,The Londo|ners spoiled at Croidon. about the euening tide they came thither, and assailing them in their lodgings, slue manie, and wan a great spoile. The earle of Leicester and the barons hauing the rule of the king and realme in their hands, sought to oppresse all such as they knew to be against them, and not to like of their procéedings; namelie, the northerne lords, and those of the marshes of Wales, as the lord Morti|mer and others: but waxing herewith wilfull, they vsed things with small discretion, which at length brought them to confusion. For the foure sonnes of the earle of Leicester, Henrie, Guie, Simon, and an other Henrie, which had serued right worthilie indéed on the daie of the battell, began to waxe so proud, that in comparison of themselues, they despised all others.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The lords of the marshes of Wales, as Roger de Mortimer, Iames de Audelie, Roger de Clifford, Roger de Leiborne, Matt. West. Haimon le Strange, Hugh Turberuile, and other that had escaped from the bat|tell at Lewes, began to make against them that had thus vsurped the rule of the land, vnder colour of hauing the king in their hands. The earle of Leice|ster aduertised hereof, ioined in league with Leolin prince of Wales, and comming with the king into those parts, entered into the castell of Hereford, into the which he remooued the lord Edward from Do|uer, where he was first kept in ward, after he had yéelded himselfe at Lewes. After this, the earle of Leicester recouered the castell of Haie, and wasting the lands and manours of the lord Mortimer, con|streined Hugh Mortimer to yéeld himselfe, so that his castell called Richar, and other his possessions, were committed to the kéeping of the lord Iohn Fitz Iohn.The earle of Darbie com|meth to Che|ster with 20 thousand men. Robert de Ferrers earle of Darbie, with a great puissance of horssemen and footmen came to Chester, in fauour of the earle of Leicester, against whome although William de Cousche, and Dauid brother to the prince of Wales, taking the contrarie part with the lord Iames Audelie and o|ther, came to incounter, yet they durst not abide him, but fled, and lost an hundred of their men.