Compare 1577 edition: 1 He builded the monasterie of Farendon, and the abbeie of Hales in Shropshire; he repaired God|stow where his fathers concubine Rosamund laie in|terred; he was no small benefactor to the minster of Lichfield in Staffordshire; to the abbeie of Cro|kesden in the same shire, and to the chappell at Kna|tesburgh in Yorkshire. So that (to say what I thinke) he was not so void of deuotion towards the church, as diuers of his enimies haue reported, who of meere malice conceale all his vertues, and hide none of his vices; but are plentifull inough in setting foorth the same to the vttermost, and interpret all his doo|ings and saiengs to the woorst, as may appeare to those that aduisedlie read the works of them that write the order of his life, which may séeme rather an inuectiue than a true historie: neuerthelesse, sith we cannot come by the truth of things through the ma|lice of writers, Matth. Paris. Polydor. & alij. we must content our selues with this vnfréendlie description of his time. Certeinelie it should séeme the man had a princelie heart in him, and wanted nothing but faithfull subiects to haue as|sisted him in reuenging such wrongs as were doone and offered by the French king and others.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, the pride and pretended authoritie of the cleargie he could not well abide, when they went a|bout to wrest out of his hands the prerogatiue of his princelie rule and gouernement. True it is, that to mainteine his warres which he was forced to take in hand, as well in France as elsewhere, he was con|streined to make all the shift he could deuise to reco|uer monie, and bicause he pinched their pursses, they conceiued no small hatred against him, which when he perceiued, and wanted peraduenture discretion to passe it ouer, he discouered now and then in his rage his immoderate displeasure, as one not able to bridle his affections, a thing verie hard in a stout sto|mach, and thereby missed now and then to compasse that which otherwise he might verie well haue brought to passe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 It is written, that he meant to haue become feu|darie (for maintenance sake against his owne disloi|all subiects, Matth. Paris and other his aduersaries) vnto Mira|mumeline the great king of the Saracens: but for the truth of this report I haue little to saie, and therefore I leaue the credit thereof to the authors. It is reported likewise, that in time when the realme stood interdicted, as he was abroad to hunt one day, it chanced that there was a great stag or hart killed, which when he came to be broken vp, prooued to be ve|rie fat and thicke of flesh;

Oh (saith he) what a plesant life this déere hath led, and yet in all his daies he neuer heard masse.