[1] [2] The king about the beginning, or (as other saie) a|bout the middle of Lent, Tho. Wals [...]. Ri. Southwell. Additions to Meri. held a parlement at Win|chester, during the which, Edmund of Woodstoke earle of Kent the kings vncle was arrested the mor|row after saint Gregories day, and being arreigned vpon certeine confessions and letters found about him, he was found giltie of treason. There were di|uerse in trouble about the same matter, for the earle vpon his open confession before sundrie lords of the realme, declared that not onelie by commandement from the pope, but also by the setting on of diuerse nobles of this land (whome he named) he was persua|ded to indeuour himselfe by all waies and meanes possible how to deliuer his brother king Edward the second out of prison, and to restore him to the crowne, whome one Thomas Dunhed, a frier of the order of preachers in London,Thom. Dun|hed a frier. affirmed for certeine to be a|liue, hauing (as he himselfe said) called vp a spirit to vnderstand the truth thereof, and so what by counsell of the said frier, and of three other friers of the same order, Thom. Wals. he had purposed to worke some meane how to deliuer him, and to restore him againe to the king|dome. Among the letters that were found about him, disclosing a great part of his practise, some there were, which he had written and directed vnto his bro|ther the said king Edward, as by some writers it should appeare.