Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the second daie of Nouember also a little be|fore the breake of the daie, the like thing appeared a|gaine with lesse feare and woonder to the people (than before) being now better accustomed to the like sight againe. And now the same daie and selfe houre that the king arriued at Sandwich, being the second houre of that daie, whilest the sunne shone verie bright and cleare, there appeared a most brightsome and vnaccustomed clearnesse, not farre distant from the sunne, as it were to the length and breadth of a mans personage, hauing a red shining brightnesse withall, like to the rainbow, which strange sight when manie beheld, there were that prognosticated the king alreadie to be arriued.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this meane while the bishop of Durham with a great armie besieged the castell of Tickhill; Rog. Houed. Diuerse sieges held at one time. and earle Dauid brother to the king of Scots, with Ra|nulfe earle of Chester, and earle Ferrers, besieged the castell of Notingham, whilest at the same present the archbishop of Canturburie with a great power besieged Marleburgh castell, the which within a few daies was rendred into his hands, the liues and lims of them within saued. Also the castell of Lancaster was deliuered to him, the which the same archbishops brother had in kéeping vnder earle Iohn, and like|wise the abbeie of S. Michaels mount in Cornwall,S. Michaels mount. the which abbeie Henrie de la Pomerey chasing out the moonks, had fortified against the king, and hea|ring newes of the kings returne home, died (as it was thought) for méere gréefe and feare. These three places were surrendered to the archbishop before the kings returne, but Tickhill & Notingham held out.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 King Richard being returned into England, and vnderstanding both how the French king made warre against him in Normandie, and that the state of England was not a little disquieted, by the pra|ctise of his brother earle Iohn and his complices, spe|ciallie by reason that diuerse castels were defended by such as he had placed in them, he thought good with all speed to cut off such occasions as might bréed a further mischéefe. Wherevpon he first went to No|tingham,The king go|eth to Noting+ham and win|neth the castel. and within thrée daies after his comming thither (which was on the daie of the Annunciation of our ladie) he constreined them that kept the castell there in his brothers name, to yeeld themselues sim|plie vnto his mercie, Rog. Houed. after they had abidden diuerse assaults, by the which euen the first daie the vtter gates were burnt, and certeine defenses destroied, which they had made before the same.