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After this^ Hugh le Despenser, the Justiciar, who then had charge of the Tower, with a countless multitude of Londoners, went forth from the City, following the standards of the aforesaid Constable and Marshal ; none of them knowing whither
they were going, or what they were to do. Being led however as far as l Ystleworthe, they there laid waste and ravaged with fire the manor of the King of Almaine, and plundered all the property there found, and broke down and burned his mills ane fish-preserves, observing no truce, at the very time that the said Parliament was in existence. And this was the beginning of woes, and the source of that deadly war, through which so many manors were committed to the flames, so many men, rich and
poor, were plundered, and so many thousands of persons lost their lives. |