[1] This rumor so inflated his mind, that in maner disdeining to heare speake of so small a companie,K. Richard contemneth the earle and his power. he determined at the first to take little or no regard to this so small a sparkle, declaring the earle to be in|nocent and vnwise, bicause that he rashly attempted such a great enterprise with so small and thin a num|ber of warlike persons: and therefore he gaue a defi|nitiue sentence, that when he came to that point that he should be compelled to fight against his will, hée either should be apprehended aliue, or else by all like|lihood he should of necessitie come to a shamefull con|fusion: and that he trusted to be shortlie doone by sir Walter Herbert, and Rice ap Thomas, which then ruled Wales with equall power and like authoritie.