[1] [2] The cause of this warre rose cheeflie, for that the said lord Tiptost, and the lord Alane Plucknet, the kings steward in Wales, would haue constreined the said Rées to appeare at counties and hundreds, as the vse in other parts of Wales then was, con|trarie to such liberties as he had obteined of the king as he pretended. But when the king wrote vnto the same Rées, requiring him to kéepe the peace, till his returne (at what time he promised to reforme all [page 284] things in due and reasonable order) Rees hauing al|readie put armour vpon his backe, would not now incline to any peace, but to reuenge his cause, assem|bled a great multitude of Welshmen, with whose helpe he burnt & destroied manie townes in Wales, N. Triuet. so that the K. being then beyond the seas, sent to the earle of Cornewall, whom in his absence he had ap|pointed his lieutenant ouer England, requiring him to send an armie into Wales, to resist the malice and riotous attempts of the Welshmen. The earle short|lie therevpon prepared an armie, and went with the same into Wales, or (as other write) the bishop of E|lie, the lord prior of S. Iohns, the earle of Glocester, and diuerse barons of the land went thither, and cha|sing the said Rées, dispersed his armie, and ouer|threw and raced his castels, but by vndermining and reuersing the wals at the castell of Druslan, with the fall therof, the baron Stafford, and the lord William de Montchensie, with manie other knights and es|quiers, were oppressed and brused to death. ¶ This yeare, the king at Blankfort in Gascoigne, tooke vp|on him the crosse, purposing eftsoones to make a iour|nie against Gods enimies.