¶How kynge Edwarde dyd all mane¦re thynge yt syr Hughe Spenser wolde.
NOwe as kynge Edwarde herde this tydynges he remeued his se¦ge trom Berwyk & came agayn into en¦glonde. But syr Hugh Spenser y• was the kynges Chamberlayne. kepte so the kynges chamber. y• no man myzte speke with y• kynge. But he had made wt hȳ a fret for to do all his nedet & yt ouer me sure. And this Hugh bare hym so stewte yt all men had of hym scorne & dyspyte. & the kynge hymselfe wolde not be gouer¦ned / ne rulyd by no manere of man but oonly by his fader & by hym. And if on•• knyghte of Englonde had wodes ma∣neyrs or londes y• they wolde coueyte ano ne y• kynge must yeue it them. or elles y• man y• ought it. sholde be falsly endyted of forfeyt or felony / And thrughe suche doynge they dysheryted many a bache∣lere / and somoche londe he gate that it was grete wonder / And whā the lordes of Englonde sawe the greate couetyse & falsnesse of syr Hugh Spenser the fader and of syr Hugh the sone / they came to the gentyll Erle of Lancastre / and 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 a pryne assemble. at Shirburne in Elmede & they made there an othe / for to brebe & dystrouble y• daynge bytwene the kynge & syr Hugh Spenser & his so¦ne vpon theyr power. And they wente in to the marche of walys. & dystroyed the londe of the forsayd syr Hughes.