[1] The citie was in a great feare at the first know|ledge giuen,The citie of London sore afraid of the rebels. how the rebels were so neere incamped to the citie, euerie man getting himselfe to harnesse, and placing themselues, some at the gates, some on the walles, so that no part was vndefended. But the king deliuered the citie of that feare: for after that he perceiued how the Cornishmen were all daie rea|die to fight, and that on the hill; he sent straight Iohn Earle of Oxenford, Henrie Bourchier, earle of Es|sex, Edmund de la Poole, earle of Suffolke, sir Rise ap Thomas, and sir Humfreie Stanleie, noble war|riors, with a great companie of archers and horsse|men, to enuiron the hill on the right side, and on the left, to the intent that all bywaies being stopped and foreclosed, all hope of flight should be taken from them. And incontinentlie he himselfe, being as well incouraged with manlie stomachs as furnished with a populous armie and plentie of artillerie, set for|ward out of the citie, and incamped himselfe in saint Georges field, where he on the fridaie at night then lodged.