[1] [2] There also came sir William Stanleie accom|panied with a few persons. And after that the earle and he had communed no long time togither; he re|uerted to his souldiors, whom he had assembled togi|ther to serue the earle: which from thence departed to Lichfield, and lay without the walles in his campe all the night. The next morning he entered into the towne, and was with all honor like a prince recei|ued. A daie or two before, the lord Stanleie, hauing in his band almost fiue thousand men, lodged in the [page 754] same towne. But hearing that the erle of Richmond was marching thitherward,The lord Stanleies de|uise to auoid suspicion of K. Richard and to saue his sonnes life. gaue to him place, dis|lodging him and his, and repaired to a towne called Aderstone, there abiding the comming of the earle. And this wilie fox did this act, to auoid all suspicion on king Richards part.