Compare 1577 edition: 1 At the day appointed, there was a great assem|blie, and the steward had got togither out of all parts the best wrestlers that might be heard of, so that there was hard hold betwixt them and the Londo|ners. But finallie, the steward vpon desire of re|uenge,A not com|mitted vnder pretense of wrestling. procured them to fall togither by the eares without any iust cause, so that the Londoners were beaten and wounded, and constreined to flée backe to the citie in great disorder. The citizens sore offen|ded to see their people so misused, rose in tumult, and rang the common bell to gather the more companie to them.Robert Serle maior of Lon|don. Robert Serle maior of the citie would haue pacified the matter, persuading them to let the iniu|rie passe, till by orderlie plaint they might get re|dresse, as law and iustice should assigne. But a cer|teine stout man of the citie namedConstantine Fitz Arnulfe,Constant [...]ne, a citizen of London pro|cureth the ci|tizens to re|uenge their cause by waie of rebellion. Matth. Paris. of good authoritie amongst them, aduised the multitude not to harken vnto peace, but to seeke reuenge out of hand (wherein he shewed himselfe so farre from true manhood, that he bewraied himselfe rather to haue had a womans heart,

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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 This lewd counsell was soone receiued and exe|cuted by the outragious people, & Constantine him|selfe being cheefe leader of them, cried with a lowd voice, Mount ioy mount ioy, God be our aid and our souereigne Lewes.The lord chéefe iu|stice taketh in+quisition of the riot. This outragious part comming to the notice of Hubert de Burgh lord chéefe iustice, he gat togither a power of armed men, and came to the citie with the fame, and taking inquisition of the cheéfe offendors, found Constantine as constant in affirming the déed to be his,Constantine apprehended. as he had before con|stantlie put it in practise, wherevpon he was appre|hended and two other citizens with him. On the next day in the morning Fouks de Brent was appointed to haue them to execution: and so by the Thames he quietlie led them to the place where they should suf|fer. Now when Constantine had the halter about his necke, he offered fifteene thousand marks of siluer to haue béene pardoned, but it would not be. There was hanged with him his nephue named also Constan|tine,He is executed and one Geffrey, who made the proclamation deuised by the said Constantine. The crie also which Constantine vsed to the setting forward of his vn|lawfull enterprise in the name of Lewes most of all offended the kings fréends, as the lord cheefe iustice and others, who not satisfied with the death of the three before remembred persons, but also entring the citie againe with their hands of armed men, apprehended diuerse of those whome they tooke to be culpable, not onelie putting manie of them into prison, but also punishing other of them, as some with losse of a foot, some of an hand, and other of their eie-sight. The king furthermore to reuenge this matter, deposed all the magistrats of the citie, and ordeined new in their roomes. Which caused great hartburning against di|uerse of the Nobilitie, but cheefelie the lord Hubert and Fouks de Brent, on whome in time they hoped to haue reuenge.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 As this bro [...]le vexed the citie of London,Great tempe [...] so in this yeare there chanced great tempest of thunder, light|ning and raine, whereby much hurt was doone in di|uerse parts of the realme, and at sundrie times,A generall thunder. as by throwing downe of steeples, churches, and other buil|dings, with the rootwalting of trées, as well in woods as orchards, verie strange to consider, chéefelie on the eight day of Februarie at Grantham in Lincolne|shire, where there chanced (beside the thunder) such a stinke and filthie fauour to follow in the church, that the people fled out, for that they were not able to a|bide it. Likewise in the day of the exaltation of the crosse, a generall thunder happened throughout the realme, and thervpon followed a continuall season of foule weather and wet, till Candelmas next after, which caused a dearth of corne,Great dearth of corne. so as wheat was sold at twelue shillings the quarter. Likewise on the day of saint Andrew an other terrible tempest of thunder happened through the realme,In other tem|pest of thunder throwing downe and shaking buildings in manie places, in so much that at Pillerdeston in Warwikeshire, in a knights house, the ladie thereof and six other persons were de|stroied by the same. And a turbarie thereby compas|sed about with water and marresse was so dried vp, Polydor. that neither grasse nor mire remained, after which insued an earthquake. Moreouer on the euen of saint Lucie, a mightie wind raged, which did much hurt in sundrie places of the realme. Furthermore, about this time there appeared in England a wonderfull comet or blasing starre. The sea also rose with higher tides and springs than it had beene accustomed to doo.A comet or blasing star. All which woonders were afterward iudged to be|token and signifie the losse which the christians sustei|ned the same yeare in Aegypt, when they were con|streined to surrender the citie of Damieta into the Saracens hands,The losse of the citie of Damieta. which latelie before (as yée haue heard) they had woone with long and chargeable siege. After the yéelding vp of Damieta,William de [...]+benie earle of Arundell de|parted this [...] William de Al|benie earle of Arundell (whome Ranulfe earle of Chester left behind him in the holie land) with manie souldiers and men of warre (when he returned from thence) came now homewards towards England, and died by the waie.