[1] Although the kings authoritie thus began to shew it selfe, to the terror of rebels; yet the commons of Essex eftsoones assembled themselues togither,The cõmons of Essex re|bell afresh. not far from Hatfield Peuerell, and sent to the king to know of him if his pleasure was, that they should in|ioy their promised liberties: and further, that they might be as frée as their lords, and not to come to a|ny court, except it were to the great léet, twise in the yeare. When the king heard such presumptuous re|quests, he was in a great chafe, & dispatched the mes|sengers awaie, with a sore threatning answer, saieng that bondmen they were, and bondmen they should be, and that in more vile manner than before, to the terrible example of all other that should attempt any the like disorders: and foorthwith, the earle of Buc|kingham, and the lord Thomas Percie, brother to the earle of Northumberland,The rebels of Essex are sc [...]+tered & slaine. were sent with an armie to represse those rebels, whome they found fortified within woods, hedges and ditches verie stronglie, but with small adoo they were put to flight, & about fiue hundred of them slaine; the residue saued themselues as well as they might, by succour of the woods. There were eight hundred horsses also taken, which those rebels had there with them, to draw and carrie their baggage.