[1] [2] [3] The king not greatlie liking of this answer, forti|fied the tower,The king for|saketh Lon|don, and goeth towards the marches of Wales. and leauing within it his yoonger son Iohn of Eltham, and the wife of the lord chamber|leine Hugh Spenser the yoonger that was his neece, he departed towards the marches of Wales, there to raise an armie against the queene. Before his depar|ture from London,A proclama|tion set forth by the king. he set foorth a proclamation, that euerie man vnder paine of forfeiting of life & goods, should resist them that were thus landed, assaile, and kill them, the quéene, his sonne Edward, and his bro|ther the earle of Kent onelie excepted; and whosoeuer could bring the head or dead corps of the lord Morti|mer of Wigmore, should haue for his labour a thou|sand marks.The quéenes proclamation. The queenes proclamations on the other part willed all men to hope for peace, the Spensers publike enimies of the realme, and the lord chancellor Robert Baldocke, with their assistants onlie excep|ted, through whose meanes the present trouble was happened to the realme. And it was forbidden, that no man should take ought from any person, and who so euer could bring to the quéene the head of Hugh Spenser the yoonger, should haue two thousand pounds of the queenes gift.