[1] [2] [3] Manie déemed that this miserable end chanced to the duke of Yorke, as a due punishment for breaking his oth of allegiance vnto his souereigne lord king Henrie: but others held him discharged thereof, bi|cause he obteined a dispensation from the popeA purchase of Gods cursse with ye popes blessing. by such suggestion as his procurators made vnto him, whereby the same oth was adiudged void, as that which was receiued vnaduisedlie, to the preiudice of himselfe, and disheriting of all his posteritie. After this victorie by the quéene,The priso|ners beheaded the earle of Salisburie and all the prisoners were sent to Pomfret, and there be|headed, whose heads (togither with the duke of Yorkes head) were conueied to Yorke, and there set on poles ouer the gate of the citie, in despite of them and their linage. The earle of March,The earle of March now duke of Yorke. now after the death of his father, verie duke of Yorke, lieng at Glocester, was woonderfullie amazed, when the sor|rowfull newes of these mishaps came vnto him: but [page 660] after comfort giuen to him by his faithfull louers and assured alies, he remooued to Shrewesburie, de|claring to the inhabitants of that towne, and to them of the other townes in those parties the murther of his father, the ieopardie of himselfe, and the present ruine of the common-wealth.