Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon also the bishop of Elie himselfe wrote vnto the bishop of Lincolne and other, touching this matter: but the bishops did neither any thing in ac|complishment of the effect of the popes letters, nor at his owne supplication. And therefore percei|uing small helpe to come that waie, he sought to ob|teine the fauour and fréendship of earle Iohn, and of his mother quéene Elianor. In the meane time, the lords, barons and prelates of the realme, after they had depriued him of all authoritie, and banished him out of the land, ordeined the archbishop of Rouen in fauour of the kings commission,The arch [...]i|shop of Rouen chéefe gouer|nour of Eng|land. to haue the chéefe rule and administration of things touching all the affaires of the common-wealth; but yet so as earle Iohn had the dooings in manie points, so that he might séeme in manner an associat with him, wher|of sprang much inconuenience. For this Iohn being a man (as he is noted by some writers) of an ambiti|ous nature, was suspected to aspire vnto the king|dome: in somuch that he had ioined with the French king, after the same king was returned foorth of the holie land, against his brother king Richard, if his mother quéene Elianor had not persuaded him to the contrarie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Whilest these things were a dooing, R. Houed. Wil. Paruus. Fiftene saith Functius, but others agrée with Houed. as Gerardus Mercator, ci|ting Alberi|cus a moonke. on the twelfth daie of Iulie, the citie of Acres was surrendred into the christian mens hands, for the Soldan Saladine (being approched néere to the siege of the christians with a puissant armie, in hope to haue raised their siege) when he perceiued it laie not in his power to worke any feat to the succour of his people within the citie, and that they were so constreined that they must néeds yéeld, he holpe to make their compositi|on, and promised to performe certeine couenants on their behalfe. Herevpon, the Saracens within A|cres couenanted not onelie to deliuer the citie vnto the christians with fiue hundred prisoners of christi|ans which they had within the same, but also to pro|cure that the holie crosse should be to them deliuered, with a thousand other christian prisoners, such as the christian princes should appoint out of those numbers which Saladine had in his custodie, and further, to giue them two hundred thousand Besans. And till these couenants were performed, it was agréed, that the Saracens, which were at that present left within the citie, should remaine as pledges, vnder conditi|on, that if the same couenants were not performed within fortie daies, then should they stand at the mer|cie of the christian princes as touching life and lim.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 These things thus concluded,The citie of Acres. and the citie yéelded vp into the christian mens hands, the French king EEBO page image 133 vpon enuie and malice conceiued against king Ri|chard (although he pretended sicknesse for excuse) de|parted homewards,The French K. returneth home. setting from Acres the last day of Iulie. Now then, after the departure of king Phi|lip, when the day approched, in the which the Saracens should performe the couenants; or else stand to the iudgement of life and death at the pleasure of the christian princes: it was perceiued that the coue|nants would not be fullfilled according to the agrée|ment. For Saladine, as it well appeared, ment not to performe that which for the safegard of his men he had vndertaken, and did but dallie with the christi|ans to prolong the time: wherevpon sentence was giuen foorth, that for default in such behalfe, the Sa|racens remaining as pledges should loose their heads.