[1] The barons in the meane time that lay at siege be|fore the castle of Windsore,The siege raised from Windsor. hearing of that hauocke which king Iohn had made in the east parts of the realme, secretlie in the night season raised their camps, and leauing their tents behind them, with all spéed made towards Cambridge. But king Iohn by faithfull espials, hauing aduertisement of their in|tent, which was, to get betwixt him and the places of his refuge, withdrew him and got to Stamford, yer they might reach to Cambridge, so that missing their purpose, after they had taken some spoiles abroad in the countrie, they returned to London. King Iohn from Stamford, marched toward Lincolne, bicause he heard that the castell there was besieged.