[1] [2] [3] [4] The same day that Wiclife was conuented thus at London, before the bishops and other lords, tho|rough a word spoken in reproch by the duke of Lan|caster vnto the bishop of London, streightwaies the Londoners getting them to armour,The duke of Lancaster in danger by the Londoners. meant to haue slaine the duke, & if the bishop had not staid them, they had suerlie set fire on the dukes house at the Sauoie: and with much adoo might the bishop quiet them. A|mong other reprochfull parts which in despite of the duke they committed, they caused his armes in the publike stréet to be reuersed as if he had béene a trai|tor, or some notorious offendor. The duke and the lord Henrie Percie,The lord Percie. whom the citizens sought in his owne house to haue slaine him, if he had béen found, hearing of this riotous stur and rebellious commo|tion, forsooke their dinner and fled to Kenington, where the lord Richard, sonne to the prince, togither with his mother then remained, exhibiting before their presence, a grieuous complaint of the opprobri|ous iniuries doone vnto them, by the wilfull outrage of the Londoners. For this and other causes, the ci|tizens were sore hated of the duke, in so much that he caused the maior & aldermen that then ruled to be dis|charged of their roomes, and other put in their places.