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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Finallie, after he had sundrie times [...]ooued this suit for the hauing of the lands vnto which he preten|ded a title, and could get nothing of king Richard but faire words, putting him as it were in hope to obteine that he required at his next returne out of France, vpon the 22 daie of Aprill being fridaie, he tooke leaue of the king, and returned towards his countrie, not verie ioifull, in that he could not ob|teine his suit. King Richard in this meane while cau|sed all those prisoners that were taken in the castels of Notingham, Tickhill, Marleburgh, Lancaster, and S. Michaels mount,Mainprise. which were of any wealth to be put in prison, that they might fine for their ran|soms. The residue he suffered to depart vpon suer|ties, that were bound for them in an hundreth marks a peece, to be forth comming when they should be called.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now the king (after he had gathered a great por|tion of monie, and ordeined diuerse things for the be|hoofe of the common-wealth, thereby to satisfie the harts of the people) prepared himselfe to saile into Normandie. Rog. Houed. But first he reconciled the archbishop of Yorke, and the bishop of Elie lord chancellour, as|well for the apprehension & imprisoning of the arch|bishop at Douer, as for the dishonourable expulsion of the chancellour out of England, in such wise that the chancellour should vpon reasonable summons giuen to him by the archbishop, sweare with the hands of an hundred préests with him, that he neither commanded nor willed that the archbishop should be apprehended. The controuersie betwixt the two archbishops about the bearing of their crosses, the king would not meddle withall, for (as he said) that perteined to the pope. Yet the archbishop of Cantur|burie complained to king Richard of the iniurie doone to him at that present by the archbishop of Yorke, presuming within his prouince to haue his crosse borne before him. At length when the kings prouision was once readie for his voiage into Nor|mandie, he came to Douer, and hearing that the French king had besieged the towne of Uernueil, and that the same was in danger to be taken, he tooke the sea togither with his mother quéene Elia|nor on the ninth daie of Maie,The king transporteth ouer into France. and transporting ouer into Normandie, arriued at Harfléet with an hun|dred great ships fraught with men, horsses and ar|mour.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The French king hearing of king Richards arri|uall, and that he was comming with a great power to the succour of them within Uernueil, and was alreadie incamped néere to the towne of the Eagle,The French king raiseth his siege from Uernueil. he plucked vp his tents in the night before Whitsun|daie, and leauing the siege, departed from thence, and tooke a certeine small fortresse by the waie as he marched, wherein he left a few souldiers to keepe it to his vse. King Richard herewith entring into the French dominions, sent three bands of souldiers to|wards Uale de Ruell, and went himselfe vnto Lo|ches, and besieging that castell wan it within a short time. The Normans also recouered the citie of Eu|reux out of the French mens hands, N. Triuet. but those that were sent vnto Ruell, and had besieged the castell there an eight daies without anie gaine, hearing that the French king was comming towards them, departed thence, & came backe to the kings campe, wherevpon the French king comming to Ruell ra|ced it to the ground, bicause his enimie should not at anie time in winning it nestle there to the further damage of the countrie.

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