Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now to returne and speake of other dooings, which chanced about the time in which the said Ra|nulfe earle of Chester departed this life. The king in the meane while seized into his hands a great portion of the treasure which Hubert de Burgh earle of Kent had committed to the kéeping of the templers. But whereas there were that trauelled to haue had him put to death, the king in respect of the seruice which he had doone to him and to his predecessors king Ri|chard and king Iohn, granted him life, with those sands which he had either by purchase, or by gift of king Iohn,The earle of Kent kept in prison within the castell of Uées. but neuertheles he caused him to be kept in frée prison at the castell of the Uées, vnder the cu|stodie of foure knights belonging to the earles of Cornewall, Warren, Penbroke, and Ferrers, which foure earles were become suerties for him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 This yeare also about the same time, to wit, Matth. Paris. A great thun|der. the morow after S. Martins daie, chanced great thun|der and lightning, which continued for the space of 15 daies togither, to the great terrour and feare of the people, and namelie of the Londoners, which haue that kind of weather so familiar to them, that if there be anie abroad in the land, they haue their part there|of. Moreouer on the 23 of March, was heard an o|ther great and terrible tempest of thunder,A wet sum|mer. and after followed a maruellous wet summer with manie flouds. Also on the 8 daie of Aprill, in the parts a|bout Hereford and Worcester,Foure summer beside the ac|customed sun. there appeared foure sunnes in the element, beside the naturall sunne, of red colour, and a great circle of christaline colour, the which compassed with his largenesse as it had béene the whole circuit almost of the whole realme of Eng|land, Matth. Paris. from the sides whereof went foorth certeine halfe circles, in whose sections appeared the said foure sunnes. The naturall sunne was at the same time in the east part of the firmament, for it was about the first houre of the daie, or betwixt six and seuen in the morning, the aire being the same time verie bright and cleare. The bishop of Hereford, and sir Iohn Monmouth knight, and manie others beheld this woonderfull sight, and testified the same to be most true. Matth. Paris. And after this there followed the same yeare in those parts cruell warre, slaughter, terrible bloud|shed, & a generall trouble through England, Wales, and Ireland. About the same time, to wit, in Iune,A strange woonder. in the south parts of England néere to the sea coast, two huge dragons appeared fighting in the aire, and after a long fight the one ouercome the other, and fol|lowed him, fléeing into the depth of the sea, & so they were séene no more.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer in this yeare great variance and strife rose betwixt the king and his barons, for the king tooke great displeasure against all other his officers, & so much the more mistrusted them, Polydor. for that he found himselfe deceiued in the earle of Kent, to whom he had committed a further credit than to anie other, and had made him high iustice of England, onelie for the good will that he alwaies bare to him. There|fore perceiuing this,The king be|ginneth to fa|uour strangers. he was doubtfull whom he should trust, discharging the most part of those En|glishmen that bare any office about him, and in their roomes placed strangers, as Poictouins and Bri|tains, of the which there came ouer vnto him manie knights and other, to the number of 2000, which he placed in garrisons within castels of diuerse places of the land, and committed the order of all things for the most part to the bishop of Winchester,The bishop of Winchester. and to his nephue or sonne Peter de Riuales.