Compare 1577 edition: 1 This addition [the peeres of the realme] nothing pleased the king and his councell, namelie the lord chéefe iustice, by whose aduice the king meant to haue apprehended the earle the same night, after he was withdrawne to his lodging. But the earle warned thereof,He departeth from the court secretlie. secretlie departed, accompanied onelie with one man, and neuer drew bridle out of his horsses mouth, vntill he came to Reading (whither his ser|uants resorted to him) and from thence he rode straight to Marlebridge,He wineth himselfe with the earles of Chester and Penbroke and others. where he found his deare freend William earle Marshall, to whome he did im|part the danger likelie to haue befallen him. Then they drew to the erle of Chester, & taking order with him for the raising of an armie, there met shortlie af|ter at Stamford the persons whose names hereafter insue;They meét at Stamford with an armie Ranulfe earle of Chester, William Marshall earle of Penbroke, Richard earle of Cornewall the kings brother, Gilbert earle of Glocester, William earle Warren, Henrie earle of Hereford, William earle Ferrers, William earle of Warwike, and di|uerse barons, lords and knights, hauing there with them a great puissance of warlike personages.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king hauing vnderstanding as well of their demeanor, as also what they required by their letters and messengers to him dailie sent,A day appoin|ted to meét at Northamptõ, for a treatie of pacification. thought good for a time to pacifie their furie, and there vpon appointed a day at Northampton, where he would méet, and minister such iustice vnto them, as should be thought reasonable, and to stand with their good willes and contentation. Wherevpon,The kings grant to his brother. the parties comming to Northampton at the day assigned, he granted to the earle his brother (at the instant desire of the lords) all his mothers dowrie, with all those lands which be|longed to the earle of Britaine within England, and withall, those lands also that apperteined to the earle of Bullongne deceassed. Thus the matter being paci|fied, euerie man departed to his home, whereas if the king had béene froward (as he was mild and patient, knowing that
warres had immediatlie béene raised betwixt them, namelie, bicause manie of the lords bare a secret grudge towards the king, for that he had reuoked certeine liberties which in the begining of his reigne he had granted to be holden, though now to take a|waie the enuie which might be conceiued towards him for his dooing, he alledged, that he did not in|fringe any thing that he had then granted, but such things as his gouernours had suffered to passe whi|lest he was vnder age, and not ruler of himselfe: he caused them therefore to redéeme manie of the same priuileges, whereby he gained great finance for the setting to of his new seale (as before yee haue heard declared.)—non solis viribus aequumCredere,Val. Flac. lib. 4. saepè acri potior prudentia dextra)
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, in this yeare there were sent certeine persons from pope Gregorie the ninth (that succéeded Honorius) into all the parts of Europe,The pope ex|horteth the christians to make a iour|nie against the Saracens to mooue by preaching the christian people to make a iournie into the holie land against the Saracens. Such a multi|tude by means hereof did assemble togither from all parts, and that within a short time, as the like had sil|dome times beene heard of. It is said, that amongst them there should be to the number of fortie thou|sand Englishmen, Matth. Paris sixtie thousãd. of whome Peter bishop of Win|chester, and William bishop of Excester were the cheefe. Capteins also of that great multitude of cros|sed souldiers that went foorth of sundrie countries were these, Theobald earle of Champaigne, and Phi|lip de Albenie, Polydor. through whose negligence the sequels of this noble enterprise came but to small effect. But to procéed.