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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Duke Henrie herewith getting knowledge of the treason intended against him, or at the least sus|pecting somewhat, got him backe againe to Cantur|burie, and so auoided the danger. After this, taking his way to Rochester,Duke Henrie passeth ouer into Nor|mandie. and so to London, he got him a shipboord, and sailed by long seas into Normandie, where he arriued in safetie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After his departure, king Stephan spent the sum|mer season of this yeare, in going about the most part of the realme, shewing all the courtesie he could deuise to the people in all places where he came; ex|cept where he found any rebellious persons,

Wil. Paru. Philip de Co|leuille.

The castell of Drax.

as in Yorkshire, where Philip de Coleuille (in trust of his castell which he had stronglie fortified at a certeine place called Drax) shewed himselfe disobedient to the king, who assembling a power in the countrie, besie|ged that castell, and shortlie wanne it, without any great adoo.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When duke Henrie was departed (as ye haue heard) and gone ouer into Normandie, now that he had concluded a peace with king Stephan, his puis|sance was thought to be such,The puissance of duke Hẽrie. that he was able to mainteine warres with the mightiest prince that then reigned. For in right of his wife, he had gotten possession of the duchie of Aquitaine, and the earle|dome of Poictou; and further by his mother, he en|ioied the duchie of Normandie, and looked to succéed in the kingdome of England: and in right of his fa|ther he was earle of Aniou, Thouraigne, and Maine. He also reuoked into his hands certeine parcels of his demeane lands, which his father had giuen away, and passing from thence into Aquitaine, mightilie subdued certeine lords and barons there, that had re|belled against him.

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