Compare 1577 edition: 1 But the king being informed by the earle of Che|ster and others, that if the Londoners being thus in armor, and in so great a number, should commit any other outrage by the way, the matter might grow to some such inconuenience as would not easilie be staied, he sent to them a countermand to returne backe to the citie againe, which they did, though sorie in their hearts that they might not go through with their desired enterprise. Furthermore (sée héere the mutabilitie of fortune and hir inconstancie, whereof complaint hath béene made by our forefa|thers time out of mind, saieng,
now that the erle of Kent was thus out of the kings fauour, there were few or none of those whome he had before beene beneficiall vnto, that shewed them|selues as fréends and louers vnto him, but all for|sooke & were readie to saie the worst of him, the arch|bishop of Dubline excepted, who yet obteined of the king respit for him to make answere vnto such things as should lawfullie be obiected against him, both for the debt which should be due to the king, and also vpon points of treason, which were now laid to his charge. ¶Wherin we may see what hath béene the course of the world in former ages touching fréends, who in the spring of a mans felicitie like swallowes will flie about him; but when the winter of aduersi|tie nippeth, like snailes they keepe within their shels: wherevnto the poet verie well alluding, saith, Hor. lib. car. 1. od. 35.Passibus ambiguis fortuna volubilis errat,Et manet in nullo certa tenáx loco;Ouid. lib. 2. de trist. 5.Sed modò laeta manet, vultus modò sumit acerbos,Et tantùm constans in leuitate sua est.)
—diffugiunt cadisCum faece siccatis amici,Ferre iugum pariter dolosi.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this, as the said Hubert would haue gone to S. Edmundsburie in Suffolke, where his wife as then remained, he was apprehended at Burntwood in Essex, within a chappell there (as saith Fabian. Matth. Paris. ) But (as Matthew Paris saith) sir Robert de Crane|combe, with thrée hundred armed men was sent to apprehend him by the kings commandement, and so he was taken in a village belonging to the bishop of Norwich in Essex, and by the kings commande|ment cast into prison, but yet afterwards he was re|conciled to the kings fauor, when he had lien foure moneths in prison, and thirtéene moneths banished the court.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 In this yeare, on the exaltation of the crosse,A subsidie granted in a parlement holden at Lambeth. at Lambeth, in the assemblie of the states there, a subsi|die was granted to the K. of the fortith part of eue|rie mans goods towards the discharge of his debts which he owght to the earle of Britaine. Anno Reg. 17. Also in the beginning of the seauentéenth yeere of his reigne, Ranulfe earle of Chester and Lincolne departed this life the six and twentith day of October, Matth. Paris. Ranulfe earle of Chester de|parteth this life. whose bodie was buried at Chester, and his bowels at Walling|ford where he died. This earle Ranulfe was thrice married,Erle Ranulfe thrice maried. first to Constance daughter and heire to Conan earle of Britaine and Richmund, and so in right of hir was intituled earle of those two places: which Constance had beene first married vnto Gef|frey the third sonne of king Henrie the second, by whom she had issue Arthur (as before yée haue heard.) But by earle Ranulfe she had no issue at all, but was from him diuorced, and afterwards married vn|to Guy vicount de Towars. Then after earle Ra|nulfe was so diuorsed from the said Constance,This Cle|mence was daughter to erle Ferrers. he married a ladie named Clemence, and after hir de|ceasse, he married the third time the ladie Margaret, daughter to Humfrey de Bohun earle of Hereford and Essex, constable of England.