Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time, or rather in the yeare last past as some hold, it fortuned that the vicount of Melune a French man, fell sicke at London, and perceiuing that death was at hand, Matth. Paris. he called vnto him certeine of the English barons, which remained in the citie, vpon safegard thereof,The vicount of Melune discouereth the purpose of Lewes. and to them made this protestation:

I lament (saith he) your destruc|tion and desolation at hand, bicause ye are ignorant of the perils hanging ouer your heads. For this vn|derstand, that Lewes, and with him 16 earles and barons of France, haue secretlie sworne (if it shall fortune him to conquere this realme of England, & to be crowned king) that he will kill, banish, and confine all those of the English nobilitie (which now doo serue vnder him, and persecute their owne king) as traitours and rebels, and furthermore will dispos|sesse all their linage of such inheritances as they now hold in England. And bicause (saith he) you shall not haue doubt hereof, I which lie here at the point of death, doo now affirme vnto you, and take it on the perill of my soule, that I am one of those sixteen that haue sworne to performe this thing: wherefore I ad|uise you to prouide for your owne safeties, and your realmes which you now destroie, and kéepe this thing secret which I haue vttered vnto you.The vicount of Melune dieth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When these words of the lord of Melune were o|pened vnto the barons, they were, and not without cause, in great doubt of themselues, for they saw how Lewes had alredie placed and set Frenchmen in most of such castels and townes as he had gotten, the right whereof indeed belonged to them. And a|gaine, it gréeued them much to vnderstand,The English nobilitie be|ginneth to mislike of the match which they had made with Lewes. how be|sides the hatred of their prince, they were euerie sun|daie and holiedaie openlie accursed in euerie church, so that manie of them inwardlie relented, and could haue bin contented to haue returned to king Iohn, if they had thought that they should thankfullie haue béene receiued.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this yeare, about the 17 of Iulie, pope Inno|cent died,The death of pope In|nocent. at whose death (being knowen in England) all they that were enimies to king Iohn greatlie re|ioised, for they were in great hope that his succes|sour would haue rather inclined to their part, than to the kings. But it fell out otherwise,Honorius the third chosen pope. for Honorius the third that succeeded the same foresaid Innocent, mainteined the same cause in defense of king Iohn, as earnestlie or rather more than his predecessour had doone, sending with all spéed his buls ouer into England to confirme Gualo in his former authoritie of legat, commanding him with all indeuour to pro|céed in his businesse, in mainteining the king a|gainst Lewes, and the disloiall English nobilitie that aided the said Lewes. But now to our purpose.