¶ 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,

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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Indeed (as Roger Houeden and other doo witnes) the foresaid earle Reimond, and also Aimer earle of Angolesme, Rog. Houed. The nobles of Poictou rebell against earle Richard. Geffrey de Racon, and Geffrey de Lu|signan, with the most part of all the Nobles of Poictou, made warre against earle Richard, and he held tacke against them all, and in the end ouercame them. Amongst other of earle Reimonds part whom he tooke, was one Peter Seille, by whose counsell earle Reimond had taken diuerse merchants of Poictou that were subiects to earle Richard,Peter Seille. & doone manie other displeasures to him and to his countrie, wherefore earle Richard kept this Peter in verie close prison, and would not put him to his ransome: in somuch that earle Reimond tooke two of the king of Englands knights, sir Robert Poer, and sir Ri|chard Fraser, as they were returning from Compo|stella, where they had béene to visit the bodie of S. Iames, but they were quicklie set at libertie by the French kings commandement, for the reuerence of S. Iames whose pilgrims they were.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Erle Richard inuadeth the earle Tho|louze lands.After this, earle Richard entred with a great ar|mie into the lands of earle Reimond, wasted the same, and tooke by siege a castell of his situate néere vnto Tholouze, called Moisac: whereof the French king hearing, sent out of hand to the king of Eng|land, requiring to know if the damages doone by his sonne earle Richard vnto him & his people in Tho|louze, were doone by his commandement, for the which he demanded restitution. Herevnto the king of England answered, that his sonne earle Richard did nothing in that behalfe, either by his knowledge or commandement: but that as he had signified to him by the archbishop of Dublin, what soeuer he did therin, was doone by the counsell of the French king himselfe.