[1] [2] There were some shiriffes and batliffes also, which by the kings commandement were arrested and put in prison, and diuerse of all sorts did kéepe themselues out of the waie, and would not as yet be [...]ound. In like maner, H [...]beit earle of Kent, lord cheefe iustice,The earle of Kent put in blame. was accused to be chiefe transgressour in this mat|ter, as he that had giuen foorth the kings letters pa|tents to those disguised and ma [...]ing threshers, who had taken vpon them so to sequester other mens goods, whereto they had no right. There came also to the king one sir Robert de Twing,Sir Robert de Twing. a knight of the north parts (which named himselfe William We|therso, and had led about a companie of the foresaid maskers) profes [...]ing that he had doone it vpon iust cause to be reuenged vpon the Romans, which went about by sentence of the pope, and manifest fraud to spoile him of the parsonage of a certeine church which he held, and therfore he said he had rather stand accur|sed without iust cause for a time, [...]an to lose his bene|fice without due iudgement. Howbeit the king and the other commissioners counseled him in the end to go to Rome to purchase his absolution, sith he was fallen in danger of excommunication, and there to sue for his pardon in the popes consistorie. And to in|courage him the better so to doo, the king wrote also in his fauour to the pope, testifieng the right which he claimed to the church, whereby at length he obteined his suit (as after ye shall heare. Polydor. A parle [...] & subsidie demanded, and denied.)