[1] This was on Corpus Christi daie, as the same au|thors write, that the king should thus talke with them: but their first entring into Southwarke, was on Corpus Christi euen, as Thomas Walsingham saith, passing at their pleasure to and fro the bridge all that night: for although the lord maior,The cõmons of London aiders of the rebels. and other of the best citizens would gladlie haue closed the gates against them, yet they durst not doo it, for feare of the commons of the citie, who seemed to fauour the cause of the rebels so apparantlie, that they threat|ned to kill both the lord maior, & all other that would take vpon them to shut the gates against the com|mons. The Londoners liked better of the com|mons,All rebels [...] tend [...] but [...] purpose des|truction [...] of king [...] countrie. for that they protested the cause of their as|sembling togither, was not but to seeke out the trai|tors of the realme, and when they had found them foorth, and punished them according to that they had deserued, they ment to be quiet. And to giue the more [page 431] credit to their saiengs, they suffered none of their companie to rob or spoile, but caused them to paie for that they tooke.