[1] [2] [3] The mondaie after saint Matthews day in Sep|tember, the king held a solemne iusts in Cheapeside, betwixt the great crosse and Soperlane, he with 12 as chalengers answering all defendants that came. This solemne iusts and turnie continued three daies. The quéene with manie ladies being present at the same, fell beside a stage, but yet as good hap would they had no hurt by that fall, to the reioising of ma|nie that saw them in such danger, and yet so luckilie to escape without harme. ¶ Also in a parlement holden at Notingham about saint Lukes tide, sir Roger Mortimer the earle of March was apprehen|ded the seuenteenth day of October within the castell of Notingham, where the king with the two queenes, his mother and his wife, and diuerse other were as then lodged. And though the keies of the castell were dailie and nightlie in the custodie of the said earle of March, and that his power was such, as it was doub|ted how he might be arrested (for he had,Additions [...] N. Triuet. as some writers affirme, at that present in retinue nine score knights, beside esquiers, gentlemen and yeomen) yet at length by the kings helpe, the lord William Mon|tacute, the lord Humfrie de Bohun, and his brother [page 349] sir William, the lord Rafe Stafford, the lord Robert Ufford, the lord William Clinton, the lord Iohn Neuill of Hornbie, and diuerse other, which had accu|sed the said earle of March for the murther of king Edward the second, found means by intelligence had with sir William de Eland constable of the ca|stell of Notingham, to take the said earle of March with his sonne the lord Roger or Geffrey Mortimer, and sir Simon Bereford, with other.