[1] Moreouer, such as were to go vnto the generall councell holden at Constance,The councell of Constance. were named and ap|pointed to make them readie: for the king hauing knowledge from the emperor Sigismund, of the as|sembling of that councell, thought it not conuenient to sit still as an hearer, and no partaker in so high a cause, which touched the whole state of the christian common-wealth, as then troubled by reason of the schisme that yet continued. Wherefore he sent thither Richard earle of Warwike, the bishops of Salisbu|rie,The earle of Warwike and others sent to the generall councell. Bath, and Hereford, the abbat of Westminster, and the prior of Worcester, with diuerse other doc|tors and learned men of the spiritualtie; besides knights and esquiers. They were in number eight hundred horsses, so well appointed and furnished, as well the men as horsses, that all nations meruelled to see such an honorable companie come from a coun|trie so far distant.