Prolicionycion [sic]

Capitulum 29

ALso this same yere as the Erle of warwyck was at a coū∣seyll at westmynstre / Alle the kynges houshold meyny ga¦dred them to geder for to haue slayne the sayd erle / but by helpe of god and his frendes he recoueryd his barge / and escaped theyr euyll enterpryse / how wel the Coques cam rennynge oute with spyttes and pestels ageynst hym / And the same day he roode to∣ward warwyk / And sone after he gate hym a commyssion / and wente ouer see to calays / Sone after this therle of Salysbury comyng to london was encoūtrid at bloreheth with the lord aude¦ley / & moche other peple ordeyned for to haue destressid him / but he hauynge knowleche that he shold be mette with / was accōpanyed with his twoo sonnes sir thomas and sir Iohan neuyll / and a greete felawship of good men / And soo they mette / And fough••e to geders / where therle of salysbury wanne the feld / And the lord audley was slayn and many gentill men of chesshyre and moche peple hurte / And therles twoo sonnes were hurte / and go¦ynge homeward afterward they were taken / and had to Chestre by the quenes meyne / ¶ After Calyxte / pius was pope and was chosen this yere 1458 / And he was callyd to fore Eneas an Eloquent man and a poete laureate / he was Ambassa••our of the Emperours afore tyme / ¶ And he wrote in the counseylle of basylle a noble trayttye for thauctoryte of the same. Also he canonysed saynt katheryne of Senys / ¶ This po∣pe ordeyned grete Indulgencys and pardonne to them that wol∣de go warre ageynst the turke / and wrote an Epystle to the grete turke exortynge hym to become crysten / ¶And in the ende he ordeygned a passage ageynste the Turke at Ankone / To

whiche moche peple drewe oute of all partyes of Crystendome / of whiche peple he sente many hoome. ageyne by cause they suffy∣sed not / And anone after he deyde at the sayd place of Ancone / the yere of oure lord a thousand foure honderd and liiij the xiiij day of August / ¶ In the yere eyght and thyrtty of kyng harry the duke of yorke / the Erles of warwyck and of Salys∣bury sawe the gouernaunce of the Royamme stode moost by the quene and her counseylle / and how the grete prynces of the londe were not callyd to counseylle but sette a parte / & not only soo / but that it was sayd thurgh the Royame that tho sayd lordes shol∣de be destroyed vtterly as it openly was shewed atte bloreheth by them that wold haue slayne the Erle of Salesburye / Thēne they for sauacion of theyr lyues and also for the comyn wele of the Royame thought for to remedye thyse thynges / assemblyd them to gyder with moche peple and toke a felde in the west coun¦tray / to whiche the erle of warwyck cam from calays with ma∣ny of thold soudyours / as andrew Trollop / and other / in whos wysedomes as for the warre he moche trusted / and whanne they were thus assemblyd and made theyr felde / the kynge sente oute his commissyons and preuy sealys vnto alle the lordes of hys ro¦yamme to come and awayte on hym in theyr mooste defensable wyse / and soo euery man cam in suche wyse that the kynge was strenger / and hadde moche more peple than the duc of york / and the Erles of warwyck / and Salysbury / For it is here to be noted that euery lord in englond at this tyme durst not dysobe∣ye the quene / For she rewlyd peasybly all that was done about the kynge / whiche was a good symple and Innocent man / And thenne whanne the kynge was comen to the place where as they were / the duck of yorke and his felawship had made theyr felde in the strengest wyse / and hadde purposed veryly to abyden and haue foughten / But in the nyght Andrew Trollop and all the olde Soudyours of Calays with a greete felawshippe / so∣daynly departed oute of the dukes hooste / and wente strayte vnto the kynges felde / where they were resseyued Ioyously / For they knewe the entente of the other lordes and also the ma∣ner of theyr feld ¶ And thenne the duck of york with the other lordes seynge them so deceyued toke a counseylle shortly in that same nyghte and departed from the Felde leuynge behynde them the mooste parte of theyr people to kepe the Felde till on the morne / ¶ Thenne the Duke of

yorke with his seconde sonne departed thurgh walys toward Ir∣lond leuynge his oldest sone therle of marche with the Erles of warwyck and of Salesbury / whiche to geder with thre or foure personnes roode strayte in to deuenshyre / and there by helpe and ayde of one denbam a squyer / whiche gate for them a shippe / whiche coste enleuen score noblys / & with the same shippe sailed fro thens in to garneseye / And there refresshyd them / and from thennes sayled te Calays / where they were receyued in to the cas¦tel by the postern er they of the toune knewe of hit / And the duk of yorke toke shippynge in wales and sayled ouer in to Irlond where he was well resseyued