[1] This addition [the peeres of the realme] nothing pleased the king and his councell, namelie the lord chéefe iustice, by whose aduice the king meant to haue apprehended the earle the same night, after he was withdrawne to his lodging. But the earle warned thereof,He departeth from the court secretlie. secretlie departed, accompanied onelie with one man, and neuer drew bridle out of his horsses mouth, vntill he came to Reading (whither his ser|uants resorted to him) and from thence he rode straight to Marlebridge,He wineth himselfe with the earles of Chester and Penbroke and others. where he found his deare freend William earle Marshall, to whome he did im|part the danger likelie to haue befallen him. Then they drew to the erle of Chester, & taking order with him for the raising of an armie, there met shortlie af|ter at Stamford the persons whose names hereafter insue;They meét at Stamford with an armie Ranulfe earle of Chester, William Marshall earle of Penbroke, Richard earle of Cornewall the kings brother, Gilbert earle of Glocester, William earle Warren, Henrie earle of Hereford, William earle Ferrers, William earle of Warwike, and di|uerse barons, lords and knights, hauing there with them a great puissance of warlike personages.