Which vnexpected and il-carryed message, the Gent, tooke in
such despite, as with his dagger hee stabbed the messenger to
the heart: and then well knowing in so suparlatiue an offence,
all hope of pardon foreclosed, he abandones his home, gets to a
sister of his abiding in this mount, bequetheth a large portion of
his land to the religious people there, for redeeming his soule:
and lastly, causeth himselfe to be let bloud vnto death, for leauing
the remainder to his heire: from which time forward, this place
continued rather a schoole of Mars, then the Temple of peace.
For shortly after the discomfiture of H. the 6. party, by Ed. the 4.
[11. E. 4.] at Barnet field, Iohn Earle of Oxford, who had made one,
and one of the principall on the weaker side, arriued heere
by shipping, disguised himselfe, with some of his followers,
in Pilgrims habits, therethrough got entrance, mastred the garrison,
and seyzed the place. Which, thus politikely wonne, hee as
valiantly kept, and kept a long time defended against the Kings power,
vntill reasonable conditions swayed him to a surrender.
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