[1] [2] [3] [4] Simon de Reading exe|cuted.On the same daie was Simon de Reading drawne and hanged on the same gallowes, but ten foot lower than the other. This Reading being marshall of the kings house, had vsed the queene very vncourteouslie, giuing hir manie reprochfull words, which now were remembred, and therefore may serue for an example, how dangerous a thing it is to speake euill of the higher powers. Caxton. The common fame went, that after this Hugh Spenser the sonne was taken, he would receiue no sustenance, wherefore he was the sooner put to death, or else had he beene conueied to London, there to haue suffered.The earle of Arundell ta|ken. Iohn earle of Arundell was taken on S. Hughs day, in the parts about Shrewes|burie, and the same day seuennight before the execu|tion of the earle of Glocester, Hugh Spenser the yoonger, as well the said earle, who had béene euer a great freend to both the Spensers, Th. Walsing. Execution. as also Iohn Da|niell, and Thomas de Milcheldeure were put to death at Hereford, by procurement of the lord Mortimer of Wigmore,The fauour in which the lord Morti|mer was with the quéene. that hated them extreamelie, by reason whereof they were not like to spéed much better, for what he willed the same was doone, and without him the queene in all these matters did nothing.