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the action enduring no delay, he did speedily levy 

 and send against the Lord Lovel to the number of 

 three thousand men, ill armed, but well assured, be 

 ing taken some few out of his own train, and the 

 rest out of the tenants and followers of such as were 

 safe to be trusted, under the conduct of the Duke of 

 Bedford. And as his manner was to send his par 

 dons rather before the sword than after, he gave 

 commission to the duke to proclaim pardon to all 

 that would come in ; which the duke, upon his ap 

 proach to the Lord Lovel s camp, did perform. And 

 it fell out as the king expected ; the heralds were the 

 great ordnance. For the Lord Lovel, upon procla 

 mation of pardon, mistrusting his men, fled into Lan 

 cashire, and lurking for a time with Sir Thomas 

 Broughton, after sailed over into Flanders to the 

 Lady Margaret ; and his men, forsaken of their 

 captain, did presently submit themselves to the duke. 

 The Staffords likewise, and their forces, hearing 

 what had happened to the Lord Lovel, in whose 

 success their chief trust was, despaired and dispersed. 

 The two brothers taking sanctuary at Colnham, a 

 village near Abingdon ; which place, upon view of 

 their privilege in the king s bench, being judged no 

 sufficient sanctuary for traitors, Humphrey was 

 executed at Tyburn , and Thomas, as being led by 

 his elder brother, was pardoned. So this rebellion 

 proved but a blast, and the king having by this jour 

 ney purged a little the dregs and leaven of the 

 northern people that were before in no good affec 

 tion towards him, returned to London. 



