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&r, But the Duke of Lancaster 
hearing him so staye at the matter, 
Sware thgt except according to the 
eiditiofts of the combate, and the 
lawe of armes, he woulde admit 
all things in the indenture comprys- 
ed, that were not made without his 
owne consent, he shoulde as guilty 
of the treason forthwith he had 
forth to execution. 
The duke with these words wan- 
ne great commendation, and avoyd- 
ed no small suspicion that had beene 
» conveyed of him, as partialle to the 
esquier’s cause: The esquire hedr- 
ing all this, saydj that he durst fight 
with the knight, not onely in these 
poyntes, but in all other in the 
worlde, whatsoever the same might 
be: for he trusted more to bis 
strength of bodie, and favour of his 
friendes, than in the cause which he 
liad taken upon hym to defende. 
He was indeede a mightie man of 
stature, where the knight among 
those that were of a mean stature 
was one of the least. 
Friendés to the esquier in whomke- 
had great affyance to be borne out 
through their assystance; were the’ 
lords Latimer and Basset wyth other. 
Before they entered battalle, they 
tooke an othe, as well the knight as 
the esquier, that the cause in which 
they were to fight was true, and that 
they dealt with no witch craft, nor 
arte magicke whereby they might 
obteyneé the Victorie oftheir adver- 
sarie, nor had about the any herb 
or stone, or other kind of experi- 
ment with wich miagitians use to 
triumph over theyr enemies. ‘This 
othe received of either of them, and 
therewith having made their pray- 
ers devoutly, théy begin the bat- 
tayle, first with speares, after with 
swordes, and lastly with daggers. 
They fouglit long, till finally the 
[aiid 
knight had bereft the esquier of all 
his weapons, and at length the es< 
quier was manfully overthrown by 
the knight: but as the knight 
woulde have fallen upon the esquier, 
through sweate that ran downe by 
his helmet, his sighte was hyndered, 
so that thinking to fall upon the es- 
quier, hee fell downe sidelifg him- 
selfe, not comming neare to the es- 
guier, who perceyving what had 
happened, although he was almost 
overcome with long fighting, made 
to the knight, and threw himself up- 
on him, so that many thought the 
knight ghoulde have been overcome: 
other doubted not but that the 
knight woulde recover his feete a- 
gaine, and get the victorie of his ad- 
verSariec. 
The king in thé mean tyme cause 
ed it to bee proclaymed that they 
should stay, and that the knight 
shoulde bee raysed ‘up from the 
ground, and so ment to take up the 
matter betwixt them. 
To Be short; such were sent as 
should take up the esquier, but com- 
ming to the knight, hee besought 
them, that it might please the king 
to permit them to lie still, for he 
thanked God hee was well; mis- 
trusted not to‘obtayned the victorie, 
if the esquier might be layde upon 
him; in manneras he was earst. 
Finally when it wotld not bee so 
granted, he wads contented to be 
_raysed up, and was ho sooner set up- 
on his feete, but he cheerfully went 
to the king; without any man’s 
helpe, where the esquier could ney- 
ther stand nor go without the helpe 
of two tien to holde him up, and 
therefore was set-in his chaire to 
take his ease; to see if he might re- 
cover his strength. 
The knight, at his coming before 
the king, besought him and his no- 
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