[1] Thus hauing put the quéene in a vaine hope of that which was nothing so, they departed from thence vnto Wallingford, and after to Abington, intising the people by all meanes possible vnto rebellion, all the waie as they went, and sending their agents a|broad for the same purpose: at length they came to Circester in the darke of the night, and tooke vp their lodgings. The inhabitants of that towne suspecting the matter, and iudging (as the truth was) these ru|mors which the lords spred abroad to be but dreams, they tooke therevpon counsell togither, got them to armor, and stopped all the entries and outgates of the Innes where these new ghestes were lodged, inso|much that when they about midnight secretlie at|tempted to haue come foorth, and gone their waies, the townesmen with bow and arrowes were readie to staie them, and keepe them in. The lords percei|uing the danger, got them to their armor and wea|pons, and did their best by force to breake through and repell the townesmen. But after they had fought from midnight till three of the clocke in the after|noone of the next daie, and perceiued they could not preuaile,The lords yeeld them|selues. they yeelded themselues to the townesmen, beseeching them to haue their liues saued, till they might come to the kings presence.