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Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time, king Henrie builded the ca|stell of Rutland, the castell of Basingwerke, and one house also of Templers. In the moneth of Septem|ber also this yeare, the kings third sonne was borne at Oxenford, & named Richard. This yeare was Tho|mas Becket preferred to be the kings Chancellor. The king holding his Christmas at Worcester in great royaltie, sat in the church at seruice, with his crowne on his head, Matth. Paris. The king lai|eth his crown on the altar. Coine altered. as the kings vsed in those daies to doo on solemne feasts: but as soone as masse was ended, he tooke his crowne from his head, and set it downe vpon the altar in signe of humblenes, so that he neuer after passed for the wearing of a crowne. The same yeare also the king altered his coine, abro|gating certeine peeces called basels.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the moneth of August he went ouer into Nor|mandie, and came to an enteruiew with the French king neere to the riuer of Eata, where they intreated of a league, and of a marriage, which was after a|gréed vpon,Additions to Iohn Pike. The lord chancellor Becket sent into France. Matth. West. betwixt Henrie the sonne of king Hen|rie; and the ladie Margaret, daughter to the French king: at which time Thomas Becket (then being the kings chancellor) was sent to Paris in great araie to fetch hir: who among other furnitures had nine long charrets (as Matthew Paris writeth.) Now when this ladie was deliuered to Thomas Becket the lord chancellor, and brought from Paris, she was appointed from thencefoorth to remaine in the house of Robert de Newburge, a Noble man of great ho|nor, vntill such time as the mariage should be solem|nized.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the two kings were departed in sunder, K. Henrie prepared an armie against Conan duke of Britaine, who had seized the citie of Naunts into his hands, after the decease of Geffrey the kings brother, who was earle of Naunts. At length, the same Co|nan perceiuing himselfe not able to resist the king of England, vpon the daie of the feast of saint Micha|el the archangell came to king Henrie, and surren|dred the citie of Naunts into his hands, with all the whole countrie therevnto belonging. Soone after which resignation, and vpon the 24. of August, Gef|frey the kings fourth sonne was borne of his wife queene Elianor.Geffrey the kings fourth sonne borne.

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