Jpag, th# if they would fend on the morrow morn-ing their leaders to the Thames, the king would come and hear what they had to fey. This anfwer gave great pleafure, and they werf contented wkh it : they paflbd the night as well as they could ; but you muft know that on*-fourtH of them fafted for want of provifion, as they had pot brought any with them, at which they werf much vexed, as may be fuppofed. ' At this time, the earl of Puckingham was in Wales, where he poflefled great eftates in right of Jiis wife, who was daughter of the e^rl ofgHcrcford and Northampton ; but the common report about London was, that he favoured thefe people : fome ?tfluted it for a truth, as having feen him among them, becaufc there wgs one Thomas yery much refembling him, from the county of Cambridge. As for the Englifh barons who were at Ply- mouth making preparations for .their voyage, they }iad heard of this rebellion, and that the people were rifing in all parts of the kingdom. Fearful |eft theif voyage fhould be prevented, or that the populace, as they had done at Southampton, Win-? chplfea and Arundel, fhould attack them, they heaved their anchors, and witfy fojne difficulty left the harbour, for the wind was againft them, ancf |ut to fea^ frhcfi fhey çaft anchor to wait for a wind. The duke of Lancafter was on the borders, be-tween la Morlane*, Roxburgh and Mclrofe, hold- • La Morlane. lMabuAzw.^Ma£fher/bn9s G$og. Jliuft. $f Sçêtkmd. 2 4 PI 843