[1] In this duchie were an hundred strong townes and fortresses, able to be kept and holden,The state of it. beside them which were destroied by the warres; and in the same is one archbishoprike, and six bishopriks. Some saie that the Englishmen were not of puissance either to man the townes, as they should haue béene;The causes of the losse. or to in|habit the countrie, which was the cause they could not keepe it. Other saie, that the duke of Summerset for his owne peculiar lucre, kept not halfe the num|ber of souldiours for which he was appointed and al|lowed, but put the wages in his purse.The mortell mischéefe of malice and diuision [...]nd realme. But the cheefe and onelie cause vndoubtedlie, was the diuision within the realme, euerie great man desiring rather to be reuenged on his foe at home, than on the com|mon enimie abroad, as by that which followeth you may plainelie perceiue.