1322-03-11, Tutbury

To the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby. Order to pursue with hue and ery, arrest, and imprison Thomas, earl of Lancaster, Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex, Roger Damory, Hugh Daudele the younger, John de Moubray, Bartholomew de Badelesmere, Roger de Clifford, John Giffard of Brymesfeld, Henry Tyeys, and all their followers, taking with him for this purpose the posse of those counties, and to cause proclamation to be made strictly enjoining all and singular in his bailiwick to pursue and arrest the said traitors, and to deliver them to the sheriff for custody, and that those who cannot thus pursue them shall raise hue and cry against them by hand or by horn, and that the king will punish all who shall be remiss in the premises as adherents of the said traitors, as the king has pronounced the aforesaid men traitors after taking counsel with Edmund, earl of Kent, John de Warenna (sic), earl of Richmond, Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke, Edmund, earl of Arundel, John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, and David de Strabolgi, earl of Athole, and with other barons and magnates, the king having, upon his arrival at Caldewell during his journey to the north against the said traitors, sent his men and servants before him to Burton-on-Trent to take lodging for him, whereupon the aforesaid traitors and other rebels adhering to them kept the bridge of the said town with armed force, and attacked the king's servants and men aforesaid, wounding and slaying some of them, and kept the bridge against the king, having made at the end thereof near the town bretasches in manner of war, the king being unable to pass by the fords for several days by reason of the great flood in those parts, and they inflicted evil upon the king's servants, conducting war against the king with banners displayed, and the king, upon the flood falling, crossed by a ford with his army, whereupon the rebels left the town and directed themselves against the king divided into battles (6e//a) in manner of war in a field adjoining the town, until they perceived the manner of the king's coming with his following against the town, when they turned their backs, set fire to the town, and fled. [ Parl.