[1] [2] The first two moneths passed, and no likelihood of rescue appeared; but yer the third moneth was expi|red, [page 521] the Englishmen being sent for to go with the king into Wales, raised their siege and departed, lea|uing the noble men prisoners with the earle of Nor|thumberland, and with his sonne the lord Persie, to keepe them to the kings vse. In this meane while, such as misliked with the doctrine and ceremonies then vsed in the church,The profes|sors of Wic| [...]lifs doctrine. ceassed not to vtter their con|sciences, though in secret, to those in whome they had affiance. But as in the like cases it commonlie hap|neth, they were bewraied by some that were thought chieflie to fauour their cause, as by sir Lewes Clif|ford knight, who hauing leaned to the doctrine a long time, did now (as Thomas Walsingham writeth) dis|close all that he knew vnto the archbishop of Can|turburie, to shew himselfe as it were to haue erred rather of simplenesse and ignorance, than of froward|nesse or stubborne malice. The names of such as taught the articles and conclusions mainteined by those which then they called Lollards or heretikes, the said sir Lewes Clifford gaue in writing to the said archbishop.Sir Lewes Clifford be|wraieth his fellowes. Edmund Mortimer earle of March, pri|soner with Owen Glendouer, whether for irkesom|nesse of cruell captiuitie, or feare of death, or for what other cause, it is vncerteine, agréed to take part with Owen,The earle of March mari|eth the daugh|ter of Owen Glendouer. against the king of England, and tooke to wife the daughter of the said Owen.