[1] In the meane while, the earle of Leicester passed forward on his waie so farre as Fornham a little village beside S. Edmundsburie. The lord chéefe ius|tice & the earls before mentioned with a great armie, and amongst others the said Humfrey de Boun, who had the leading of 300. knights, or men of armes at the kings wages, came out of S. Edmundsburie, ha|uing the baner of S. Edmund borne before them, & in a marish ground betwixt Fornham & Edmunds|burie, they encountred with the said earle of Leice|ster, and after long and cruell fight discomfited his people,The earle of Leicester ta|ken prisoner. and tooke him prisoner, togither with his wife the countesse Petronill, after he had doone all that belonged to a valiant capteine.