¶How kynge Edwarde dyde alle manere thynge that syr Hugh Spenser wolde·
NOw as kynge Edwarde herde this ty¦dynges he remeued his sege from Ber¦wyk & came agayn into Englond. But Syr Hugh Spenser that was the kynges Cham∣berlayne. kept so the kynges chambre. that no mā myghte speke with the kynge. But he had made with hym a fret for to do alle his nede. & that ouer mesure. And this Hugh bare hym so stowte that all men had of hym scorne and dys¦pyte. and the kynge hymself wolde not be go∣uerned / ne rulyd by no manere of man but on¦ly by his fader & by hym. And yf ony knyghte of englonde hadde wodes maneyrs or londes that they wolde coueyte anone the Kyng must yeue it them or elles the man that ought it. shol¦de be falsly endyted of forfeyt or felony. And thrugh suche doynge they dysheryted many a bachelere / and so moche londe he gate that it was grete wonder and whan the lordes of en¦londe sawe the grete couetyse & falsnesse of syr Hugh Spenser the fader & of syr Hugh the so¦ne / they come to the gentyll erle of lancastre / & axyd hym of counseyll of the dysese. that was in the reame / though syr Hugh Spenser & his sone. & in hast by one assente they made pryue assēble. at shirburne•• Elmede & they made the¦re an othe for to breke & dystouble ye doinge by¦twene the kynge and syr Hugh Spenser and his sone vpon theyr power. And they went in to the marche of walys. and dystroyed the lon∣de of the forsayd syr hughes.