[1] [2] [3] About the same time, one sir Robert Walkfare knight,Sir Robert Walkfare. a right hardie man of his hands, but craftie and subtill (who being taken in the warres which the lords raised against the king, had beene committed to prison in the castell of Corfe) found means now to kill the constable of that castell most cruellie, and escaping awaie, got ouer to the quéene into France, and so the number of them that ran out of the realme vnto hir dailie increased. This sir Robert Walk|fare was a great procurer of the discord betwixt the king and the lords, and a chéefe leader, or rather sedu|cer of that noble man Humfrie de Bohune earle of Hereford: and whilest other gaue themselues to seeke a reformation in the decaied state of the com|monwealth, he set his mind vpon murders and rob|beries. Diuerse other about the same time fled out of the realme vnto the queene, and vnto hir sonne the earle of Chester.The bishop of Excester cõ|meth from the quéene. But in the meane time, Walter Stapleton bishop of Excester, which hitherto had re|mained with the queene in France, stale now from hir, and got ouer into England, opening to the king all the counsell and whole mind of the queene: which thing turned first of all vnto his owne destruction, as shall after appeare.