[1] The spéedie diligence and loiall dutie which was found at that present in the worthie councellour George earle of Shrewesburie,The faithfull diligence of the earle of Shrewsburie is not to be forgot|ten, who immediatlie after he vnderstood how the northerne men were thus vp in armes, considering how much it imported to stop them of their passage before they should aduance too far forwards, where|by they might both increase in power, and put all o|ther parts of the realme in hazard, through feare or hope to incline to their wicked purposes, he sent abroad with all spéed possible to raise such power of his seruants, tenants, and fréends, as by anie means he might make, and withall dispatched one of his ser|uants to the king, both to aduertise him what he had doone, and also to purchase his pardon, for making such leuie of power, before he had receiued his ma|iesties commission so to doo.