[1] At his comming to a little village called Cald|well,Burton vpon Trent. he sent afore him certeine bands to Burton vp|on [page 330] on Trent, where he ment to haue lodged: but the earles of Lancaster and Hereford, the lords Roger Damorie, Hugh Audelie the yonger, Iohn de Mow|braie, Bartholomew de Badelismere, Roger de Clif|ford, Iohn Gifford de Brem [...]sfield, Henrie Tieis, and many other being gotten thither before, kept the bridge, and affailing the kings people which he had thus sent before, some of them they slue, and some they wounded, so defending the bridge, that none could passe, and by reason that the waters, and speci|allie the riuer of Trent through abundance of raine that was latelie fallen, were raised, there was no meane to passe by the foords, wherevpon the king was constreined to staie the space of thrée daies, in which meane time, the earles and their complices for|tified the bridge at Burton, with barriers and such like defenses, after the maner of warre, but the king at length vpon deliberate aduise taken how to passe the riuer,The earle of Surrie. Peraduen|ture at Wich|nore. ordeined, that the earle of Surrie with cer|teine armed men, should go ouer by a bridge that was thrée miles distant from Burton, that he might come vpon the backes of the enimies, as they were fighting with those that should assaile them afront.