[1] [2] For the lord Stanleie was afraid, least if he should séeme openlie to be a fautor or aider to the earle his sonne in law, before the day of the battell, that king Richard, which yet vtterlie did not put in him diffi|dence and mistrust, would put to some cruell death his sonne and heire apparant George lord Strange, whome king Richard (as you haue heard before) kept with him as a pledge or hostage, to the intent that the lord Stanleie his father should attempt nothing pre|iudiciall to him. King Richard at this season kéeping his house in the castle of Notingham, was informed that the earle of Richmond, with such vanished men as were fled out of England to him, were now arri|ued in Wales, and that all things necessarie to his enterprise were vnprouided, vnpurueied, and verie weake, nothing méet to withstand the power of such as the king had appointed to méet him.