[1] When therefore the bishop was come into the place where the commons were incamped,The fortifi|eng of the re|bels campe. he perceiued that they had fortified their campe verie stronglie with ditches, and such other stuffe as they could make shift with, as doores, windowes, boords, & tables, and behind them were all their cariages placed, so that it séemed they meant not to flie. Herewith the bishop being chased with the presumptuous boldnesse of such a sort of disordered persons, commanded his trum|pets to sound to the battell,The bishop is the first man that chargeth the rebels in their campe. and with his speare in the rest, he charged them with such violence, that he went ouer the ditch, and laied so about him, that through his manfull dooings, all his companie found means to passe the ditch likewise, and so therewith followed a verie sore and terrible sight, both parts doo|ing their best to vanquish the other. But finallie the commons were ouercome,The Nor|folke rebels vanquished. and driuen to seeke their safegard by flight, which was sore hindered by their cariages that stood behind them, ouer the which they were forced to clime and leape so well as they might. Iohn Littester and other cheefe capteins were ta|ken aliue. The bishop therefore caused the said Litte|ster to be arreigned of high treason, and condemned, and so he was drawne, hanged, and headed according to the iudgement.