[1] [2] [3] [4] Whilest the duke of Yorke was about thus to com|fort the king, the soldiers that had the victorie now in their hands, applied the spoile, namelie, the Northerne men, stripping not onelie those that had borne armor against them, but also the townsmen and other, with whom they might méet. So that it was thought, if the king had taken vp his lodging at his first comming thither, within the abbeie, as he did not (but in the middest of the towne, to prouide the better to resist his enimies) the abbeie had beene spoiled also. This was the end of the first battell at saint Albons,Battell of S. Albons on thursday the 23 of Maie. Anno Reg. 33. which was fought vpon the thursdaie next before the feast of Penthecost, being the thrée and twentith day of Maie, in this three and thirtith yeare of the kings reigne. The bodies of the noble men were buried in the monasterie in our ladies chappell,Foure of thẽ to wit, the duke of Sũ|merset, the earle of Nor|thumberland, and the lord Clifford, were buried in our ladie chapell. Whethamsted and the meane people in other places. This Edmund duke of Sum|merset left behind him thrée sonnes, Henrie, Ed|mund and Iohn, which to the extremitie of death tooke part with the line of king Henrie.