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                             (  22  ) the Kentish men, who again began ; but the King was persuaded by the Nobility and Gentry of that country to proceed by ordinary Justice, which was accordingly done The King.s peace was proclaimed in every place, agreeable to his letters, from Loudon, dated June 17 in the 4th year of his reign, to the great encourage- ment of his good subjects, and confu- sion’ of the bad.

There were executed above one thou- and five hundred in different places, be- sides five of a new forlorn company ; who having desperately dared .to gather head again in Essex about Bellericai; had tendered to the King certain insolent de- mands ; which were justly rejected and ; them slain. The Lord Thomas of Wood-, stock, Earl of Buckinham, the King’s' uncle, with Sir Thomas Piercy, brother to the Count of Northumberland, were sent with force against them, —-the re- bels, though very numerous, were brok- en at the very first onset, with a charge | made upon them by a rank in front of ^ ten men with arms and lances.— There were taken eight hundred horses be- longing to the Rebels.-—Sir Thomas