[1] [2] [3] The king kéeping on his waie, had not ridden past foure miles, when he came to the place where the am|bushes were lodged, and being entred within dan|ger of them, before he was aware, shewed himselfe to be sore abashed. But now there was no remi [...]: for the earle being there with his men, would not suf|fer him to returne, as he gladlie would haue doone if he might; but being inclosed with the sea on the one side, and the rocks on the other, hauing his aduersa|ries so néere at hand before him, he could not shift a|waie by any meanes, for if he should haue fled backe, they might easilie haue ouertaken him, yer he could haue got out of their danger. And thus of force he was then constrained to go with the earle, who brought him to Rutland, where they dined, and from thence they rode vnto Flint to bed. The king had ve|rie few about him of his freends, except onelie the earle of Salisburie, the bishop of Carleill, the lord Stephan Scroope, sir Nicholas Ferebie, a sonne also of the countesse of Salisburie, and Ienico Dartois a Gascoigne that still ware the cognisance or deuise of his maister king Richard, that is to saie,A constant seruant. a white hart, and would not put it from him, neither for per|suasions nor threats; by reason whereof, when the duke of Hereford vnderstood it, he caused him to be committed to prison within the castell of Chester. This man was the last (as saieth mine author) which ware that deuise, and shewed well thereby his con|stant hart toward his maister, for the which it was thought he should haue lost his life, but yet he was pardoned, and at length reconciled to the dukes fa|uour, after he was king.