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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 About this time the king minding the benefit of the commonwealth, Anno Reg. 12. 1228 caused the weights and mea|sures generallie within the land to be reformed after one standard. Matth. Paris. Weights and measures. Polydor. Hubert de Burgh crea|ted earle of Kent. Furthermore, he created Hubert de Burgh earle of Kent, the which Hubert how much praise so euer he got at the beginning for his valian|cie shewed in the defending of Douer castell, and in vanquishing the French fléet that was comming to the succour of Lewes by battell on the sea, it is cer|teine, that now he purchased himselfe double as much hatred and euill will, bicause that being of secret councell with the king, and thereby after a sort seque|stred from the lords, he was knowne to dissuade the said prince from restoring of the ancient lawes and customes vnto the people, which the barons oft re|quired: whereby it came to passe, that the more he grew in fauour with the prince, the further he came into the enuie of the Nobilitie, and hatred of the peo|ple, EEBO page image 210 which is a common reward to such as in respect of their maister doo little regard the profit of others, as the prouerbe saith,
Plus quis honoratur hostis tum multiplicatur.