[1] [2] [3] [4] But before he came there, king Henrie know|ing all his enimies purposes, came the night before the daie of the battell to Newarke; and tarrieng there a little, went thrée miles further, and pitching his field, lodged there that night. The earle of Lin|colne certified of his comming, was nothing aba|shed, but kept still on his iournie; and at a little vil|lage called Stoke, nigh to the king and his armie, set downe his campe.The battell of Stoke. The next daie the king diuided his whole power into thrée battels, and after in good arraie approached nigh to the towne of Stoke. The earle likewise set foorth his armie, and incountring with the kings people in a faire plaine there, meet for the triall of such a conflict, set vpon them with a man|lie courage, desiring his soldiors to remember his honour and their owne liues.