[1] Now to haue all things in more perfect readinesse and remembrance when the estates should be assem|bled, certeine of the lords were appointed to sit in the meane time, to deuise how they might procéed order|lie in redresse of such matters, as séemed to require some spéedie reformation: neither did they thinke it good to depart in sunder, for feare to be intrapped through the malicious practise of their aduersaries. Which doubt of theirs seemed afterwards to stand them in stéed of great wisedome. For immediatlie after, their said aduersaries came to the king, and de|clared how they were dailie in danger of their liues, by reason of the malice which the lords had conceiued against them onelie for the kings sake, and not for a|ny matter of their owne. And whereas the king had promised that they should appeare at the next parle|ment, which was at hand, they told him plainelie that they neither durst nor would put their bodies in such manifest danger. The king considering hereof, with|drew himselfe from the companie of the lords that were assigned to fit at London, to deliberate of mat|ters that were to be talked of and ordered in the par|lement; and so that councell was deferred and laid aside: and the kings councellors that stood in danger of their liues through the malice of the lords confede|rated with the duke of Glocester, got them from the court, and withdrew some into this place and some into that.