[1] Here is to be remembred, that aswell the king on his part, as the earle of Warwike on his, vsed ma|nie comfortable words to incourage their people, not forgetting to set foorth their quarels as iust and law|full; the king naming his aduersaries traitors and rebels, & the earle accounting him a tyrant, & an in|iurious vsurper. But when the time came that they once got fight either of other, the battell began verie sharpe and cruell, first with shot, and after by ioining at hand blowes. Yet at the first they ioined not front to front, as they should haue doone, by reason of the mist that tooke awaie the sight of either armie, and suffered the one not to discerne perfectlie the order of the other; insomuch that the one end of the earle of Warwikes armie ouerraught the contrarie end of the kings battell which stood westward, and by reason thereof (through the valiancie of the earle of Oxford that led the earles voward) the kings people on that part were ouermatched,The valiancie of the earle of Oxford. so that manie of them fled towards Barnet, and so to London, bringing newes that the erle of Warwike had woone the field.