[1] [2] [3] The Scots (as some write) which had the fore ward on the Persies side, Hall. The Scots. intending to be reuenged of their old displeasures doone to them by the English nation, set so fiercelie on the kings fore ward, led by the earle of Stafford, that they made the same draw backe, and had almost broken their aduersaries ar|raie. The Welshmen also which before had [...]aine lur|king in the woods, mounteines, and marishes, hea|ri [...]g of this battell toward, came to the aid of the Persies,The Welsh|men come to aid the Per|sies. and refreshed the wearied people with new succours. The king perceiuing that his men were thus put to distresse, what with the violent impression of the Scots, and the tempestuous stormes of ar|rowes, that his aduersaries discharged fréely against him and his people, it was no need to will him to stirre: for suddenlie with his fresh battell, he appro|ched and relieued his men; so that the battell began more fierce than before. Here the lord Henrie Per|sie, and the earle Dowglas, a right stout and hardie capteine, not regarding the shot of the kings battell, nor the close order of the ranks, pressing forward to|gither bent their whole forces towards the kings per|son, comming vpon him with speares and swords so fiercelie, that the earle of March the Scot,

The earle of March.

Tho. Walsi.

percei|uing their purpose, withdrew the king from that side of the field (as some write) for his great benefit and safegard (as it appeared) for they gaue such a violent onset vpon them that stood about the kings standard, that slaieng his standard-bearer sir Walter Blunt, and ouerthrowing the standard, they made slaughter of all those that stood about it, as the earle of Staf|ford, that daie made by the king constable of the realme, and diuerse other.