Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But to the purpose. Perceiuing himselfe now de|stitute of his best fréends, of whom diuerse remained prisoners with the French king (being taken at the battell of Bouins) he thought good to agrée with king Philip for this present, by way of taking some truce, which by mediation of ambassadours riding to and fro betwixt them,A truce taken betwixt the two kings of England & France. was at length accorded to endure for fiue yeares, and to begin at Easter, in the yeare of our Lord, 1215. After this, about the 19 daie of October he returned into England, to appease cer|teine tumults which began alreadie to shoot out buds of some new ciuill dissention. And suerlie the same spred abroad their blossoms so freshlie, that the fruit was knit before the growth by anie timelie prouisi|on could be hindered. For the people being set on by diuerse of the superiours of both sorts, finding them|selues gréeued that the king kept not promise in re|storing the ancient lawes of S. Edward, determi|ned from thencefoorth to vse force, since by request he might not preuaile. To appease this furie of the peo|ple, not onlie policie but power also was required, for the people vndertaking an euill enterprise, speci|allie raising a tumult or ioining in a conspiracie are as hardlie suppressed and vanquished as Hydra the monster hauing manie: heads and therefore it is well said, that

—comes est discordia vulgi,

Námque à turbando nomen sibi turba recepit.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Nobles supposing that longer delaie therein was not to be suffered, assembled themselues togi|ther at the abbeie of Burie (vnder colour of going thither to doo their deuotions to the bodie of S. Ed|mund which laie there inshrined) where they vttered their complaint of the kings tyrannicall maners,A cloked pil|grimage. al|ledging how they were oftentimes called foorth to serue in the wars & to fight in defense of the realme, and yet notwithstanding were still oppressed at home by the kings officers, who (vpon confidence of the lawes) attempted all things whatsoeuer they concei|ued. And if anie man complained, or alledged that he receiued wrong at their hands, they would an|swer by and by, that they had law on their side to doo as they had doone, so that it was no wrong but right which they did, and therfore if they that were the lords and péeres of the realme were men, it stood them vp|on to prouide that such inconueniences might be a|uoided, and better lawes brought in vse, by the which their ancestours liued in a more quiet and happie state.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 There was brought foorth and also read an ancient charter made sometime by Henrie the first (whichThe charter of K. Henrie the first. charter Stephan the archbishop of Canturburie had deliuered vnto them before in the citie of London) conte [...]ning the grant of certeine liberties according to the lawes of king Edward the confessor,A firebrand of dissention. profita|ble to the church and barons of the realme, which they purposed to haue vniuersallie executed ouer all the land. And therfore being thus assembled in the quéere EEBO page image 184 of the church of S. Edmund, they receiued a solemne oth vpon the altar there, that if the king would not grant to the same liberties, with others which be of his owne accord had promised to confirme to them, they would from thencefoorth make warre vpon him, till they had obteined their purpose, and inforced him to grant, not onelie to all these their petitions, but also yéeld to the confirmation of them vnder his scale, for [...]uer to remaine most stedfast and inuio|lable.