[1] [2] The king sore mooued herewith, determined to go himselfe into Wales, that he might take worthie punishment of those his aduersaries, that could ne|uer be sufficientlie chastised. Wherevpon raising a great power,The king passeth him|selfe in person into Wales. he hasted foorth, and comming into Wales, put the rebels in such feare, that they with|drew to their accustomed places of refuge, I meane the woods and mareshes. The king would faine haue had them foorth, that he might haue punished them according to their deserts, and therefore to bring his purpose the better to passe, he sent for an armie of soldiers into Ireland, and tarried for their comming at the castell of Brecknoke, but the yeare was farre spent yer his people could be gathered, so that by the aduise of his lords he strengthened certeine castels, and so returned for that yeare into England, leauing the lord Roger Mortimer his lieutenant in Wales, to resist the rebels.The lord Mortimer the kings lieute|nant in Wales Polydor. But now let vs speake of other dooings which chanced in the meane while that the warres thus continued and lasted betwixt England and Wales.