[1] The lord Herbert called sir Charles Summer|set, lord chamberleine to the king, in the end of the same moneth followed the said earle of Shrewesbu|rie, with six thousand men: in whose companie were the erls of Northumberland Percie, of Kent Greie, of Wilshire Stafford, the lord Dudleie, the lord De|laware, and his sonne sir Thomas West, sir Ed|ward Husseie, sir Edward Dimmocke, sir Dauid Owen, with manie other knights, esquiers, and gentlemen. After they had soiourned certeine daies in Calis, and that all their necessaries were readie, they issued foorth of the towne, so to begin their campe. And first the earle of Shrewesburie and his companie tooke the field, and after him the lord Her|bert with his retinues in manner of a rere-ward. Then followed that valiant knight sir Rice ap Tho|mas, with fiue hundred light horssemen and archers on horssebacke, who ioined himselfe to the fore-ward, a gentleman of such spirit and hardinesse, that he is named the floure of the Welshmen, as the poet saith:

—Ricius Thomas flos Cambrobritannûm.