Compare 1577 edition: 1 This doone, king Henrie tooke order also for the le|uieng of the tenth, as well here in England,A tenth leuied as he had doone in the parts subiect to him on the further side the sea. He also sent Hugh bishop of Durham, and other both spirituall and temporall persons, vnto William king of Scots, to gather the tenth likewise within his countrie, but he met them betwixt W [...]rk and Brightham,The king of Scots. and would not suffer them to enter into Scotland, but he offered to giue vnto the king of EEBO page image 112 England in recompense of the tenths, and for to haue againe his castels, the summe of 5000. marks of siluer, which could not be accepted. The French king likewise gathered the tenths in his countrie to|wards this intended iournie. But by the working of some wicked spirit (as we may well thinke) which en|uied the aduancement of the christian common|wealth,The good meaning of the two kings disappointed. Polydor. that good meaning of the two kings was broken and disappointed: for the peace latelie conclu|ded betwixt them continued not long vnuiolated.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The French writers impute the fault thereof vn|to English men, and the English writers laie it to French men.Reimond erle of Tholouze. The French writers say, that earle Ri|chard the son of king Henrie in breach of the league, made warre vpon Reimond earle of Tholouze. The English writers reproue the French king as a wic|ked man, in that he should of purpose breake the peace and moue warre against king Henrie, to with|draw him from going to make warre against the Saracens, to the which enterprise he was wholie bent and inclined. Such is the maner of manie wri|ters, who more affectionat to the loue of their coun|trie than to the truth, doo not obserue the law of histo|ries in their writings, but rather inueie one against another in a bralling and reprouing maner.

¶ Examples hereof are more than by any possibi|litie may be remembred, and namelie for breuitie sake George Bucchanan in the 8. booke of his Sco|tish historie verie reprochfullie speaketh of Richard Grafton (a right reuerend man whiles he liued and of entier name also being dead) charging him with ignorance, and the report of a shamelesse lier. Whose case, bicause it is not so conuenient to be handled in this place as els where, we will remit to the reigne ofwhere he shall be fullie & sufficient|lie answered. Edward the third, in whose time Iohn Balioll was king of Scots, and cleere him (as well as we can) from a Scotish slander. Another example also we haue, and that most notorious, of Gabriel Pra|teolus the Iesuit, who hauing neuer beene in Eng|land, nor yet vnderstanding the English toong, blush|eth not to say that the translation of the English bi|ble hath in it a thousand faults. O singular and in|sufferable impudencie, when men passe not what they vomit and cast vp out of a full gorge surfetting with malice and rancour! But what shall we say,

Horat. in art. poet.Omne superuacuum pleno de pectore manat.