Compare 1577 edition: 1 But to let this passe as a cold discourse of a cof|fen of bones couered with clods of claie;King Iohns children. you shall vnderstand that he left behind him posteritie of both sexes. For he had issue by his wife queene Isabell two sonnes, Henrie who succéeded him in the king|dome, and Richard; thrée daughters, Ioane married to Alexander king of Scotland, Isabell coupled in matrimonie with the emperour Frederike the se|cond, EEBO page image 196 and Elianor whome William earle of Gloce|ster had to wife. He had also another daughter (as some haue left in writing) called Elianor.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 He was comelie of stature, but of looke and coun|tenance displeasant and angrie, somewhat cruell of nature, as by the writers of his time he is noted, and not so hardie as doubtfull in time of perill and dan|ger. But this séemeth to be an enuious report vtte|red by those that were giuen to speake no good of him whome they inwardlie hated. Howbeit some giue this witnesse of him (as the author of the booke of Bernewell abbeie and other) that he was a great and mightie prince, but yet not verie fortunate, much like to Marius the noble Romane, tasting of for|tune both waies: bountifull and liberall vnto stran|gers, but of his owne people (for their dailie treasons practised towards him) a great oppressour, so that he trusted more to forreners than to them, and therfore in the end he was of them vtterlie forsaken.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 ¶ Uerelie, whosoeuer shall consider the course of the historie written of this prince, he shall find, that he hath beene little beholden to the writers of that time in which he liued: for scarselie can they afoord him a good word, except when the trueth inforceth them to come out with it as it were against their willes. The occasion whereof (as some thinke) was, for that he was no great freend to the clergie. And yet vndoub|tedlie his déeds shew he had a zeale to religion, as it was then accompted: for he founded the abbeie of Beauleau in the new forrest, as it were in recom|pense of certeine parishchurches, which to inlarge the same forrest he caused to be throwne downe and rui|nated.