[1] This doone, and now after that they were set in quiet in that countrie (the rebels not being so hardie as to stirre, whilest such a mightie armie was there readie at hand to assaile them) the king about Ea|ster came backe into England without anie more a|doo,K. Richard returneth out of Ireland. so that the gaine was thought nothing to coun|teruaile the charges, which were verie great: for the king had ouer with him in that iournie, foure thou|sand men of armes, and thirtie thousand archers, as Froissard saith he was informed by an English es|quier that had béene in that iournie. The king at his comming ouer, did not forget what complaint the archbishop of Yorke, and the bishop of London had exhibited to him, against those that were called Lol|lards, and heretiks, wherevpon immediatlie, he cal|led before him certeine of the noble men,K. Richards dealings a|gainst the fa|uorers of the Wickleuists. that were thought and knowne to fauour such kind of men, threatning terriblie, if from thence foorth they should in anie wise comfort and relieue them. He caused sir Richard Sturrie to receiue an oth, that he should not mainteine from that day forward anie such erro|nious opinions, menacing him, and as it were, co|uenanting with him by an interchangeable oth, that if euer he might vnderstand, that he did violate and breake that oth, he should die for it a most shamefull death.