Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time,Arthur duke of Britaine made knight. king Philip made Arthur duke of Britaine knight, and receiued of him his ho|mage for Aniou, Poictiers, Maine, Touraine, and Britaine. Also somewhat before the time that the truce should expire; to wit, on the morrow after the feast of the Assumption of our ladie, and also the day next following, the two kings talked by commissio|ners, in a place betwixt the townes of Buteuant and Guleton. Within three daies after, they came to|gither personallie, and communed at full of the va|riance depending betwéene them. But the French king shewed himselfe stiffe and hard in this treatie, demanding the whole countrie of Ueulquessine to be restored vnto him,The French kings de|mand. as that which had béene gran|ted by Geffrey earle of Aniou, the father of king Henrie the second, vnto Lewes le Grosse, to haue his aid then against king Stephan. Moreouer, he de|manded, that Poictiers, Aniou, Maine, and Tou|raine, should be deliuered and wholie resigned vnto Arthur duke of Britaine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But these, & diuerse other requests which he made, king Iohn would not in any wise grant vnto, and so they departed without conclusion of any agrée|ment. Therfore diuerse earls and barons of France, which before that time had serued king Richard, re|paired vnto king Iohn, and tooke an oth to assist him, and not to agrée with the French king without his consent: and he likewise sware vnto them, not to make peace with the French king, except they were therein comprised. In the moneth of September, Ione king Iohns sister, wife to Raimond earle of S. Giles, and somtime quéene of Sicile, died at Ro|uen, and was buried at Fonteuerard. The French king also tooke diuerse townes and castels, but a|mongst other the castell of Balun, and raced the wals thereof downe to the ground,Balun [...] wherewith Wil|liam de Roches, generall of the armie of Arthur duke of Britaine, was greatlie offended, and did so much by his drift, that shortlie after a peace was concluded betwixt king Iohn and his nephue duke Arthur, though the same serued but to small purpose.A peace be|twixt king Iohn & his nephue.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The French king hauing (as I haue said) ouer|throwne the wals of Balun, besieged a fortresse cal|led Lauardin,Lauardin. but king Iohn comming with an ar|mie, caused him to raise his siege, and to withdraw himselfe to the citie of Mauns, whither he followed, and compelled him (manger his force) to remoue from thence. All this while was William de Ro|ches busilie occupied about his practise,William de Roches. to make king Iohn and his nephue Arthur fréends, which thing at length he brought about, and therevpon deliuered in|to king Iohns hands the citie of Mauns which he had in kéeping.The vicount of Tours. Also the vicount of Tours came to the king of England, and surrendred vnto him the ca|stell of Chinon, the keeping whereof he betooke vnto Roger de Lacie the conestable of Chester. But in the night folowing, vpon some mistrust and suspicion gathered in the obseruation of the couenants on K. Iohns behalfe, both the said Arthur,The mistrust that duke Ar|thur had in his vncle king Iohn. with his mother Constance the said vicount of Tours, and diuerse o|ther, fled awaie secretlie from the king, and got them to the citie of Angiers, where the mother of the said Arthur refusing hir former husband the earle of Che|ster, married hir selfe to the lord Guie de Tours, bro|ther to the said vicount, by the popes dispensation. The same yere, Philip bastard sonne to king Richard, to whome his father had giuen the castell and honor of Coinacke, killed the vicount of Limoges,Philip king Richards ba|stard son [...] the vicount of Limoges. in re|uenge of his fathers death, who was slaine (as yee haue heard) in besieging the castell of Chalus Cheuerell.