[1] [2] Moreouer, that Edmund lord Greie of Ruthen,The L. [...] of Ruthen. who was on the kings side, failed in the trust com|mitted to him: for where the enimies could not (with|out great danger) enter vpon the kings campe, by reason of a mightie trench and rampire pight full of piles and sharpe stakes, wherewith the campe was compassed about: the said lord Graie came with his men, and with helping hands pulled the enimies vp, and receiued them into the field, where the battell was begun with great force & violence. For being now entred the field, they set vpon the kings people so fiercelie, that it séemed they ment either to obteine the victorie, or to die for it, euen all the whole number of them. The fight continued right fierse and cruell, Edw. Hall. The kings part discom|fited. with vncerteine victorie, till the houre of nine: at which time the kings armie was discomfited, and of the same slaine and drowned in the riuer, few lesse than ten thousand;The K. tak [...] and the king himselfe left comfort|lesse alone was taken by the aduersaries, as a man in great miserie.