[Whan this tragedy was ended: “O Lord,” sayd[1076]another, “how horrible a thing is diuision in a realme, to how many mischiefes is it the mother, what vice is not therby kindled, what vertue left vnquenched? for what was the cause of the duke ofYorke’sdeath, and of the cruelty of thisClyfford, saue[1077]the variaunce betwene kingHenryand the house ofYorke? which at length, besides millions of the commons, brought to destruction all the[1078]nobility. ForEdwardthe duke’s eldest son immediately after his[1079]father was slayn, through help of theNeuills, gaue the king a battayle, whereat, besides thisClyfford, and xxxvi thousand other souldiers, were slain theyr captaynes, the earles[1080]ofNorthumberlandandWestmerland, with the lordesDacresandWelles: the[1081]winning of which fielde broughtEdwardto the crowne, and the losse draue kingHenryand his wife intoScotland. But as few raignes begin without bloud, so kingEdwardto keepe order,[1082]causedThomas Courtneyearle ofDeuonshyre, andIohn Veerearle ofOxeforde, andAubrey Veereldest sonne to the sayd earle, with diuers[1083]other his enemies,[1084]to bee attaynted and put to death. And shortly after he[1085]did execution vpon the duke ofSomerset, and the lordesHungerfordandRosse, whom he toke prisoners atExhamfielde. For thither they came with[1086]kingHenryout ofScotland, with an army ofScottes, and fought a battayle, which was lost,and the most[1087]part of them slayn.[1088]And because these are all noble men, I will leaue them toBaldwine’sdiscretion. But seyng the earle ofWorcesterwas the chiefe instrument whom kingEdwardvsed as well in these men’s matters as in like bloudy affayres, because he should not be forgotten, yee shall here what I haue noted concerning his tragedy.”[1089]]
[Whan this tragedy was ended: “O Lord,” sayd[1076]another, “how horrible a thing is diuision in a realme, to how many mischiefes is it the mother, what vice is not therby kindled, what vertue left vnquenched? for what was the cause of the duke ofYorke’sdeath, and of the cruelty of thisClyfford, saue[1077]the variaunce betwene kingHenryand the house ofYorke? which at length, besides millions of the commons, brought to destruction all the[1078]nobility. ForEdwardthe duke’s eldest son immediately after his[1079]father was slayn, through help of theNeuills, gaue the king a battayle, whereat, besides thisClyfford, and xxxvi thousand other souldiers, were slain theyr captaynes, the earles[1080]ofNorthumberlandandWestmerland, with the lordesDacresandWelles: the[1081]winning of which fielde broughtEdwardto the crowne, and the losse draue kingHenryand his wife intoScotland. But as few raignes begin without bloud, so kingEdwardto keepe order,[1082]causedThomas Courtneyearle ofDeuonshyre, andIohn Veerearle ofOxeforde, andAubrey Veereldest sonne to the sayd earle, with diuers[1083]other his enemies,[1084]to bee attaynted and put to death. And shortly after he[1085]did execution vpon the duke ofSomerset, and the lordesHungerfordandRosse, whom he toke prisoners atExhamfielde. For thither they came with[1086]kingHenryout ofScotland, with an army ofScottes, and fought a battayle, which was lost,and the most[1087]part of them slayn.[1088]And because these are all noble men, I will leaue them toBaldwine’sdiscretion. But seyng the earle ofWorcesterwas the chiefe instrument whom kingEdwardvsed as well in these men’s matters as in like bloudy affayres, because he should not be forgotten, yee shall here what I haue noted concerning his tragedy.”[1089]]