[1] [2] This enterprise and discomfiture at Lincolne, which was in derision called Lewes his faire,Lewes his faire. chanced the 14 kalends of Iune, being saturdaie in the Whitsun|wéeke. Manie honest matrons of the towne were drowned, as they were got into boates to auoid the danger of their persons, wanting skill how to guide the same boates. The earle of Penbroke the same daie before he receiued any repast, rode backe in post to the king, whom he had left at Stow, and there de|clared the ioifull newes of his good speed, in vanqui|shing of the enimies. On the next morrow, newes came to the king, that they which had kept the castell of Mountsorell were fled out of the same,The K. com|mandeth ye ca|stell of Mount+sorell to be r [...]|ced. and had left it void. Wherevpon immediatlie he sent in com|mandement vnto the shiriffe of Notinghamshire, that going thither in his owne person, he should rui|nat the said castell, & make it plaine with the ground.