[1] [2] [3] [4] The bishop of Elie had vndertaken to keepe the Ile to the kings vse, but being now dispossessed ther|of, he got him awaie and fell to cursing them that were thus entred against his will, but they séemed to passe litle vpon his thundering excommunications. On the 16 of December,Norwich [...]cked. they came to the citie of Norwich; and spoiling it, tooke manie of the wealthie citizens, and ransomed them at great summes of monie. The lord Henrie Hastings and Simon de Pateshull, with diuerse others, got them into the ca|stell of Killingworth, and dailie went foorth at their pleasures, spoiling and wasting the townes about them, or causing them to fine with them to be spared. Chron. Du [...] And this they forced not to doo, although the lord Ed|mund the kings sonne laie in Warwike, to cut them short of such their licentious doings. The king ther|fore mening to haue the said castels of Killingworth by force,

The siege of Killingworth castell begin|neth.

The lord Hastings.

began his siege about the same vpon the ée|uen of S. Iohn Baptist. But the lord Henrie Ha|stings, the capteine of that castell, and other his com|plices defended it so stronglie, that though the king inforced his power to the vttermost to win it of them, yet could he not anie thing preuaile, Anno Reg. 51. till at length vittels began to faile them within, and then vpon the eeuen of saint Thomas the apostle before Christmasse, the lord Henrie Hastings deliuered the said castell into the kings hands,Killingworth castell deliue|red to the K. vpon condition that he and all other should haue life and limme, horsse and armour, with all things within the place to them belonging. And thus this siege had continued from the 26 of Iune vnto the 20 day of December.