[1] [2] [3] These lords raising such retinues of souldiers and men of warre as were to them assigned, made for|ward to the place where the armie of the rebels was then incamped, which was beyond the towne of Doncaster, in the high waie towards Yorke. But [page 943] first the said earle of Shrewesburie, with the earles of Huntington and Rutland, and such other that were next adioining to those parties, with their pow|ers assembled out of the shires of Salop, Stafford, Leicester, Rutland, Notingham, and Derbie, came to a place in Notingham shire called Blithlow, and there taking the musters of their people, streight|waies passed foorth to Doncaster, and appointed cer|teine bands of their men, to lie in places where anie [...]oords or passages laie ouer the riuer of Dun, that runneth by the northside of Doncaster, to staie the e|nimies if they should attempt to come ouer. Short|lie after came the duke of Norffolke, and finallie the marquesse of Excester with a iollie companie of westerne men, well and perfectlie appointed.