Compare 1577 edition: 1 The earle of Flanders with the earles of Bullen and Salisburie, doubting to lose their ships, and la [...]e gotten bootie, sailed strait into one of the Iles of Ze|land called Walkeren. Then the French king con|streining them of Gaunt, Bruges, and Ypres, to de|liuer vnto him pledges, caused the towne of Dam, and his ships lieng there in the hauen to be burned,The French [...] his ships. doubting least they should come into the hands of his enimies. This doone, he returned into France, leauing his sonne Lewes and the earle of S. Paule in garrison at Lis [...]e and Doway, and for great sums of monie, which by agreement he receiued of the townes of Gaunt, Bruges, and Ypres, he restored vnto them their pledges. Thus saith Meire and Mat|thew Paris differeth not much from him touching the successe which chanced to the Englishmen by land. ¶ Héere will I staie a while in the further narration of this matter, and touch by the way a thing that hap|pened to king Iohn about this present time.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In [...] of [...], or [...] as [...] writers haue. Sée M. Fox, [...] first, pag. 331. There was in this season an heremit, whose name was Peter, dwelling about Yorke, a man in great reputation with the common people, bicause that ei|ther inspired with some spirit of prophesie as the peo|ple beleeued or else hauing some notable skill in art magike, he was accustomed to tell what should fol|low after. And for so much as oftentimes his saiengs prooued true, great credit was giuen to him as to a verie prophet: which was no good consequence that therefore his predictions comprised vndoubted e|uents. Naie rather, sith in this pseudoprophet or false foreteller of afterclaps, these necessarie concurrents (namelie,
were wanting, and that he was contrarilie qualified to that which this heptastichon comprehendeth, neces|sarilie it foloweth, that he was not as he was taken, but rather a deluder of the people, and an instrument of satan raised vp for the inlargement of his king|dome; as the sequele of this discourse importeth. This Peter about the first of Ianuarie last past, had told the king, that at the feast of the Ascension it should come to passe, that he should be cast out of his king|dome. And (whether, to the intent that his words should be the better beléeued, or whether vpon too much trust of his owne cunning) he offered himselfe to suffer death for it, if his prophesie prooued not true. Herevpon being committed to prison within the ca|stell of Corf, when the day by him prefixed came, without any other notable damage vnto king Iohn, he was by the kings commandement drawne from the said castell,The heremit and his sonne hanged. vnto the towne of Warham, & there hanged, togither with his sonne.si sensus at effectus compresserit omnes,Si spernens prorsiss mortalia gaudia, seseAbdicet a cur [...]s terrenis, assiduòConetur studio ad superos extollere mentem,Tunc etenim sapiens fiet, poterít futuraCer [...]ere, vel vigilant vel s [...]mno oppressus inerti,Hoc pacto cecinêre olim ventura prophetae)
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The people much blamed king Iohn, for this ex|treame dealing, bicause that the heremit was suppo|sed to be a man of great vertue, and his sonne no|thing guiltie of the offense committed by his father (if any were) against the king. Moreouer, some thought, that he had much wrong to die, bicause the matter fell out euen as he had prophesied: for the day before the Ascension day, king Iohn had resig|ned the superioritie of his kingdome (as they tooke the matter) vnto the pope, and had doone to him ho|mage, so that he was no absolute king indeed, as au|thors affirme. One cause, and that not the least which mooued king Iohn the sooner to agree with the pope, rose through the words of the said heremit, that did put such a feare of some great mishap in his hart, which should grow through the disloialtie of his peo|ple, that it made him yéeld the sooner. But to the mat|ter againe.