[1] After Easter the erle of Leicester, hauing London at his commandement,Rochester besieged. went to Rochester and besie|ged that citie, but the capteine thereof Iohn earle of Warren did manfullie resist the enimies; till the king aduertised thereof, with the power of the mar|shes of the north parts and other came and remooued the siege. N. Triue [...]. Matth. West. This doone, he left a conuenient garrison within the citie to defend it, and comming to Tun|bridge, wan the castell, and taking the countesse of Glocester that was within it, permitted hir to de|part. This doone, he repaired to the sea side towards France, to staie there till his brethren, Geffrey and Guie, the sonnes of the earle of Marsh should arriue with some band of souldiers,The kings halfe brethren come out of France to his aid. The king in|campeth at Lewes. for whom he had now sent and reuoked into the realme, being latelie before banished by the Nobles, as before yée haue heard. They shortlie after landed, wherevpon the king ha|uing his power increased, came to Lewes, and pight downe his field not farre from that towne.