Compare 1577 edition: 1 King Iohn lieng all this while at Winchester, and hauing knowledge how his aduersaries were dailie occupied in most hard enterprises, as in besieging sundrie strong and inuincible places, sent foorth his commissioners to assemble men of warre, and to al|lure vnto his seruice all such, as in hope of prey, were minded to follow his standard, of the which there resorted to him no small number. So that ha|uing gotten togither a competent armie for his pur|pose, he brake foorth of Winchester, as it had béene an hideous tempest of weather, beating downe all things that stood in his waie,The hauocke which king Iohn made in the possessions of his aduer|saries. sending foorth his peo|ple on ech side to wast the countries, to burne vp the townes and villages, to spoile the churches & church|men. With which successe still increasing his furie, EEBO page image 192 he turned his whole violence into Cambridgeshire, where he did excéeding great hurt. Then entring into the countries of Northfolke and Suffolke,Northfolke and Suffolke. he com|mitted the like rage, wast, and destruction, in the lands and possessions that belonged vnto the earle of Arundell, to Roger Bigot, William de Hunting|field, and Roger de Cressey.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The barons in the meane time that lay at siege be|fore the castle of Windsore,The siege raised from Windsor. hearing of that hauocke which king Iohn had made in the east parts of the realme, secretlie in the night season raised their camps, and leauing their tents behind them, with all spéed made towards Cambridge. But king Iohn by faithfull espials, hauing aduertisement of their in|tent, which was, to get betwixt him and the places of his refuge, withdrew him and got to Stamford, yer they might reach to Cambridge, so that missing their purpose, after they had taken some spoiles abroad in the countrie, they returned to London. King Iohn from Stamford, marched toward Lincolne, bicause he heard that the castell there was besieged.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But those that had besieged it, as Gilbert de Gaunt,Gilbert de Gaunt fléeth from the face of king Iohn. and others, hearing that king Iohn was comming towards them, durst not abide him, but fled, and so escaped. The king then turned his iournie towards the marshes of Wales, and there did much hurt to those places that belonged to his aduersaries. After this also, and with a verie puissant armie he went e [...]tsoones eastwards, and passing through the countries, came againe into the counties of North|folke and Suffolke, wasting and afflicting all that came in his waie, and at length comming to Lin, was there ioifullie receiued.Lin. The abbeies of Peter|burgh & Crow+land spoiled. Bernewell. Then keeping foorth northwards, he spoiled the townes and abbeies of Peterburgh and Crowland, where a number of the kings enimies were withdrawne into the church, but Sauerie de Mauleon, being sent foorth to séeke them, found them in the church the morrow after S. Micha|ell, and drew them out by force, spoiled the house, and getting a great bootie and prey of cattell and other riches, he with his people conueied the same awaie at his departing, after he had ransacked euerie cor|ner of the church, and other the houses and places be|longing to that abbeie.