[1] Iohn Holland earle of Huntington (as Thomas Walsingham writeth) was not with the lords at the castell of Windsore,The lords beheaded. but staied about London to be|hold the end of his businesse: and hearing bow the ma [...]ter went farre contrarie to that he wished, be sought to flie by sea; but not able to get awaie, by rea|son the wind being contrarie would not permit him, he tooke his horsse, and hauing a knight with him cal|led sir Iohn S [...]ellie, Chr. S. Alb. he road into Essex, attempting to haue fled from thence by sea: but still the wind was so against him, that he was continuallie driuen backe when he was about to make saile, and so com|ming againe to land,The earle at Huntington taken. he was taken one euening at Pitwell in Essex, in a mill (that belonged to one of his trustie freends) as he sat there at supper, togither with the said sir Iohn Shellie. The commons of the countrie that tooke him, brought him first to Chel|mesford, and after to Plashie, where on the daie of S. Maure, that is the fiftéenth of Ianuarie,He is be|headed. about sun setting he was beheaded, in the verie place in which the duke of Glocester was arrested by king Richard. He confessed with lamentable repentance (as wri|ters doo record) that diuers & manie waies he had of|fended God and his prince, bicause that vnderstan|ding the purpose of the other lords, he had not reuea|led the same.