Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶We read in an old historie of Flanders, written by one whose name is not knowne, but printed at Lions by Guillaume Rouille, in the yeare 1562, that the said ladie, wife to the lord William de Breu|se, presented vpon a time vnto the queene of Eng|land,A present of white kine. a gift of foure hundred kine, and one bull, of colour all white, the eares excepted, which were red. Although this tale may séeme incredible, yet if we shall consider that the said Breuse was a lord mar|cher, and had goodlie possessions in Wales, and on the marshes, in which countries the most part of the peoples substance consisteth in cattell, it may carrie with it the more likelihood of truth. And suerlie the same author writeth of the iournie made this yeare into Ireland, so sensiblie, and namelie touching the manners of the Irish, that he seemeth to haue had good informations, sauing that he misseth in the names of men and places, which is a fault in ma|ner common to all forreine writers. Touching the death of the said ladie, he saith, that within eleuen daies after she was committed to prison héere in England, she was found dead, sitting betwixt hir sonnes legs, who likewise being dead, sate directlie vp against a wall of the chamber, wherein they were kept with hard pitance (as writers doo report.He himselfe escapeth.) Wil|liam the father escaped, and got away into France.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Thus the more part of the Irish people being brought vnder,The bishop of Norwich lor [...] lieutenant of Ireland. he appointed Iohn Gray the bishop of Norwich, to be his deputie there, remoouing out of that office Hugh Lacie, which bare great rule in that quarter before. The bishop then being appointed de|putie and cheefe iustice of Ireland,Irish moni [...] reformed. reformed the coine there, causing the same to be made of like weight and finenesse to the English coine, so that the Irish mo|nie was currant, as well in England, as in Ireland, being of the like weight, forme, and finenesse to the English. Moreouer, those that inhabited the wood-countries and the mounteine places, though they would not as then submit themselues, he would not at that time further pursue, bicause winter was at hand, which in that countrie approcheth timelie in the yeare. Hauing thus subdued the more part of all Ire|land, and ordred things there at his pleasure, he tooke the sea againe with much triumph,The king r [...]turneth into England. and landed in England about the thirtith day of August.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 From hence he made hast to London, and at his comming thither, tooke counsell how to recouer the great charges and expenses that he had béene at in this iournie, and by the aduise of William Brewer,An assemblie of the prelats at London. Robert de Turnham, Reignold de Cornhill, and Ri|chard de Marish, he caused all the cheefe prelats of England to assemble before him at S. Brides in London. So that thither came all the abbats, abbes|ses, templers, hospitallers, kéepers of farmes and pos|sessions of the order of Clugnie, and other such for|reners as had lands within this realme belonging to their houses. All which were constreined to paie such a greeuous tax,A tax leuied. that the whole amounted to the summe of an hundred thousand pounds. The moonks of the Cisteaux order, otherwise called white moonks, were constreined to paie 40 thousand pounds of sil|uer at this time, all their priuileges to the contrarie notwithstanding. Moreouer, the abbats of that order might not get licence to go to their generall chapter that yéere, which yeerelie was vsed to be holden, least their complaint should mooue all the world against the king, for his too too hard and seuere handling of them.1211 Anno Reg. 13. King Iohn goeth into Wales with an armie.