Compare 1577 edition: 1 When the commons beheld this, they cried out
Our capteine is traitorouslie slaine, let vs stand to|gither and die with him: let vs shoot and reuenge his death manfullie:and so bending their bowes, made them readie to shoot. The king shewing both hardi|nesse and wisedome at that instant, more than his age required, set his spurs to his horsse, and rode to them, saieng; What is the matter my men, what meane you? Will you shoot at your king? Be not troubled nor offended at the death of a traitor and ribald; I will be your king, capteine and leader,The king persuadeth the rebels. fol|low me into the fields, and you shall haue all things that you can desire. This did the king, to the end he might appease them, least they should haue set fire on the houses there in Smithfield, and haue attempted some further mischéefe, in reuenge of the displeasure which they tooke for the death of their chéefe leader. They mooued with these the kings words, followed him and the knights that were with him, into the o|pen fields, not yet resolued whether they should set vpon the king and slea him, or else be quiet, and re|turne home with the kings charter.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane time, the lord maior of London was returned into the citie, with one man onelie attend|ing vpon him, and cried to the citizens;Uehement words of the maior of Lo [...]don to the [...] crieng for aid against the rebels. Oh yée good and vertuous citizens, come foorth out of hand, and helpe your king readie to be slaine, & helpe me your EEBO page image 433 maior standing in the same perill; or if yée will not helpe me for some faults committed by me against you, yet forsake not your king, but helpe and succour him in this present danger. When the worshipfull ci|tizens and other, that in their loiall hearts loued the king, had heard these words, incontinentlie they put themselues in strong and sure armor,An armie without a capteine. to the number of a thousand men, and gathering themselues togi|ther into the stréets, tarried but for some lord or knight that might conduct them to the king: and by chance there came vnto them sir Robert Knolles, whome all of them requested that he would be their leader, least comming out of arraie and order, they might the sooner be broken, who willinglie led one part of them, and certeine other knights led other of them, clad in faire bright armour vnto the kings pre|sence. The king with the lords, knights and esquires, not a little reioised at the comming of those armed men, and streightwaies compassed the commons a|bout, as they had béene a flocke of sheepe that should haue béene closed within some fold, till it pleased the sheepheard to appoint foorth, which should be thrust into pasture, and which taken to go to the shambels.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The rebels quite discou|raged threw downe their weapons at the comming of the Lon|doners in aid [...]f the king.There was to be seene a maruellous change of the right hand of the lord, to behold how they throwing downe stanes, bils, axes, swords, bowes and arowes, humblie began to sue for pardon, which a little before gloried to haue the life of the king and his seruants wholie and altogither in their hands, power, and dis|position. The poore wretches sought to hide them|selues in the corne that grew in the fields, in ditches, hedges, and dennes, and wheresoeuer they might get out of the way, so to safe gard their liues. The knights that were with the king would gladlie haue beene dooing with them, and requested licence of him to strike off the heads of some one or two hundred of them, that it might be a witnesse in time to come, that the force of the order of knighthood was able to doo somewhat against the carters and ploughmen: but the king would not suffer them, alledging that manie of them were come thither by compulsion, and not of their owne accord, and therfore it might come to passe that those should die for it, that had nothing offended: but he commanded that there should be proclamation made in London, that the citizens should haue no dealings with them, nor suffer anie of them to come within the citie that night, but to cause them to lie without doores.