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 in the ſaid Tower, they got vp, and with a furie entered the retrenchment: and being followed with the reſt, ſome conducted by the Baron of Byron, and others by the Lord of Chaſtillion, they made thoſe within ſo diſmaied, (although they were a great number) that after they preſented the combate, they fled; and abandoning the caſtle ranne into the towne: where they were followed ſo neerelie, that the ſaid Lordes with part of the ſaid Souldiers, entred pell mell with them, and made themſelues within leſſe than halfe an howre maſters both of the caſtle & towne. The ſaid Male-beneherd and al his Souldiers, being retired into an houſe, did yeeld themſelues incontinent vnto the aforeſaid Baron of Byron, not otherwiſe, but at the Kings mercie: ſo that there was neeur towne ſeene battered & taken by aſſault (as it was) with leſſe murther; for there was not one man loſt of the Armie, & few of his enemies, his ſaid Maieſtie hauing pardoned all men, except the ſaid Beneherd, and a ſeditious grey Frier, (whom all the inhabitants themſelues accuſed to be the author of their miſchiefe) were executed. There was no meane to keep the towne from pillaging but the Churches his Maieſtie cauſed carefully to be preſerued, that there entred not one man into them. The morrowe after, hee cauſed his men of warre to depart the Towne, and ſuffered the Inhabitants to returne to their houſes, not permitting them anie longer to be pillaged and ranſomed. Hee reſtored all the Eccleſiaſticall perſons vnto their ſeuerall charges, much more peaceablie than they were, when the Towne was in occupation of the League. The example of this iuſtice ſaued more than a