[1] [2] The next daie yet they passing ouer the riuer, set fire on certeine houses at Connesfoorth, burning the more part of all the houses of two parishes: and so great was the rage of the fire, that catching hold vp|on an house wherein the merchants of Norwich vse to laie vp such wares and merchandize as they con|ueie to their citie from Yermouth, the same house with great store of wheat and other riches was mise|rablie consumed and defaced. Thus whilest euerie thing séemed to chance and fall out in fauour of the rebels, there were some in the earle of Warwiks armie, that despairing of the whole successe of their iourneie,Councell gi|uen to the erle of Warwike to abandon the citie. came to the earle of Warwike, and began to persuade with him, that sith the citie was large, and their companies small (for in déed the whole ap|pointed numbers as yet were not come, neither of strangers nor Englishmen) it was vnpossible to de|fend it against such an huge multitude as were as|sembled togither in Kets campe, and therefore be|sought him to regard his owne safetie, to leaue the citie, and not to hazard all vpon such an vncerteine maine chance.