Compare 1577 edition: 1 Immediatlie within the octaues of the Epithanie, the earle Marshall and Leolin prince of Wales wa|sted and robbed all the marshes betwixt Wales and Shrewsburie,A part of the towne of Shrewsburie burnt. Polydor. a part of which towne they also burnt. King Henrie being hereof certified as yet soiour|ning at Glocester, was sore troubled in his mind, and calling togither his councell, asked aduise what waie he might best take to redresse such iniuries. Af|ter sundrie opinions amongst them declared, they a|greed all in one sentence, that it should be most expe|dient to appease the minds of the rebels with gentle offers, to grant them pardon of their offenses, wise|lie to winne them to tractablenesse, and not rough|lie afflicting them to exasperat their fiersenesse, sith,

—saepe acri potior prudentia dextra.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Also to banish from his court diuerse that bare great rule, and namelie Peter the bishop of Win|chester, and his sonne or nephue Peter de Riuales, by the counsell of which two persons all things had béene changed in the kings house. Moreouer, to put from him such strangers as bare offices, and to re|store Englishmen againe to the same.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king allowing this aduise to be good, follow|ed it accordinglie, and first of all discharging the bi|shop of Winchester of all publike administration of things, he commanded him to repaire home to his diocesse, and to sée to the gouernement thereof, as to his dutie apperteined. He also banished from his pre|sence Peter de Riuales, Matth. Paris. Stephan Segraue, Robert Passelew, and diuerse others of his chiefe councel|lers, by whose means he had procured the euill will of his Nobilitie. Then receiued he againe his old ser|uants & officers, & finallie sent the archb. of Cantur|burie, the bishops of Chester & Rochester vnto the ba|rons in Wales, to offer them peace & pardon of all iniuries past, if they wold returne to his obedience. Thus in the end there was a truce taken betwixt the king and the rebels, Matth. Paris. to begin at Candlemasse, and to indure vntill Easter next insuing,The earle of Penbroke pas+seth ouer into Ireland. in which meane time, Richard the earle of Penbroke, hearing that Maurish Fitz Gerald, with Walter Lacie, Richard Burgh and others wasted his lands and possessions in Ireland (according to such commission as they had receiued of late from king Henrie and his councell) passed ouer thither, and there incountering with his enimies, was sore wounded and taken prisoner,He is taken prisoner. ha|uing entered the battell verie rashlie, and with a small companie of his people about him, onlie by the traitorous persuasion of Geffrey Maurish, who with other fled at the first brunt,Geffrey Maurish. and left him in maner alone, to stand to all the danger. Those that thus tooke him, brought him into his owne castell, the which the lord chiefe iustice Maurice Fitz Gerald had latelie woone. This incounter, in which Richard Marshall was thus taken, chanced on a saturdaie, being the first of Aprill; and on the 16 of the same moneth, by reason of the wound which he had receiued, he depar|ted this life.The death [...] the earle of Penbroke.