[1] Also the king of Romanes, and prince Edward sent their defiance to the barons at the same time in writing vnder their seales, for that the barons in their letter to the king, had burthened them and o|ther with misleading the king with vntrue informa|tions and sinister counsell. Matth. West. Thus as they writ to and fro such nipping letters, all the treatie of peace was forgotten and laid aside, so that they prepared to battell. The king had indéed the greater number of armed men, but manie of them were vnfaithfull, and cared not greatlie though the losse fell to his side, and so whilest they went to it without order, & vnaduised|lie, they fought at aduenture, & continued but faintly. N. Triuet. The ordering of the battels. His capteines made thrée battels of their armie, the lord Edward led the foreward, and with him Willi|am de Ualence earle of Penbroke, and Iohn de Warren erle of Surrey and Sussex. In the second, the K. of Almaine, with his sonne Henrie were cheef|taines. The third the king gouerned himselfe.