Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶There be which haue written, that after he had lost his armie, he came to the abbeie of Swineshead in Lincolneshire, and there vnderstanding the cheape|nesse and plentie of corne, shewed himselfe greatlie displeased therewith, as he that for the hatred which he bare to the English people, that had so traitorous|lie reuolted from him vnto his aduersarie Lewes, wished all miserie to light vpon them, and therevp|on said in his anger, that he would cause all kind of graine to be at a farre higher price, yer manie daies should passe. Where vpon a moonke that heard him speake such words, being mooued with zeale for the oppression of his countrie, gaue the king poison in a cup of ale, wherof he first tooke the a [...]aie, Caxton. to cause the king not to suspect the master, and so they both died in manner at one time.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 There are that write, Gisburn & [...] how one of his owne ser|uants did conspire with a conuert of that abbeie, and that they prepared a dish of peares, which they poiso|ned, three of the whole number excepted, which dish the said conuert presented vnto him. And when the king suspected them to be poisoned indéed, by reason that such pretious stones as he had about him, cast foorth a certeine sweat, as it were bewraieng the poison, he compelled the said conuert to tast and eat some of them, who knowing the thrée peares which were not poisoned, tooke and eat those three, which when the king had séene, he could not longer absteine, but fell to, and eating gréedilie of the rest, died the same night, no hurt happening to the conuert, who thorough helpe of such as bare no good will to the K. found shift to escape, and conueied himselfe awaie from danger of receiuing due punishment for so wicked a deed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Beside these reports which yee haue heard, there are other that write,The variable reports of writers, con|cerning the death of king Iohn. how he died of surfeting in the night, as Rafe Niger; some, of a bloudie flix, as one said that writeth an addition vnto Roger Houeden, And Rafe Cogheshall saith, that comming to Lin, (where he appointed Sauerie de Mauleon to be cap|teine, and to take order for the fortifieng of that towne) he took a surfet there of immoderat diet, and withall fell into a laske, and after his laske had left him, at his comming to Laford in Lindsey, he was let bloud: furthermore to increase his other greefes and sorrowes for the losse of his carriage, iewels and men, in passing ouer the washes, which troubled him sore; there came vnto him messengers from Hubert de Burgh, and Gerard de Sotegam capteins of Douer castell, aduertising him, that they were not a|able to resist the forceable assalts and engins of the enimies, if spéedie succour came not to them in due time. Whereat his gréefe of mind being doubled, so as he might séeme euen oppressed with sorrow, the same increased his disease so vehementlie, that within a small time it made an end of his life (as be|fore yée haue heard.)