The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 219)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The earle of Leicester held the bason when they washed. The earle of Warren, in the place of the erle of Arundell, bicause he was vnder age, attended on the kings cup. M. Michaell Bellet was Butler by office. The earle of Hereford exercised the roome of high Marshall in the kings house. The lord William de Beauchampe was almoner.

The earle of Hereford.

Lord William Beauchampe The citizens of London.

The citizens of Winchester.

The cheefe iustice of the forrests on the right hand of the king remoo|ued the dishes on the table, though at the first he was staied by some allegation made to the contrarie. The citizens of London serued out wine to euerie one in great plentie. The citizens of Winchester had ouersight of the kitchin and larderie. And so euerie person (according to his dutie) exercised his roome: and bicause no trouble should arise, manie things were suffered, which vpon further aduise taken therin were reformed. The chancellor and all other ordinarie of|ficers EEBO page image 220 kept their place. The feast was plentifull, so that nothing wanted that could be wished. Moreo|uer, in Tuthill field roiall iustes were holden by the space of eight daies togither. And soone after the king called a parlement at London,A parlement at London. Polydor. where manie things were enacted for the good gouernment of the realme, and therewith the king demanded a subsidie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Strange sights. Matth. Paris. ¶ About the same time woonderfull strange sights were séene. In the northparts of England, not farre from the abbie of Ro [...]h o [...] Rupie, there appeared com|ming foorth of the earth companies of armed men [...] horssebacke, with speare, shield, sword, and baners dis|plaied, in sundrie formes and shapes, riding in order of bat [...]ell, and incountering togither: and this sight was seene sundrie daies ech after other. Sometime they séemed to ioine as it had béene in battell, and fought sore; and sometime they appeared to iust and breake staues, as it had béene at some triumphant iusts of tornie. The people of the countrie beheld them a farre off, with great woonder: for the thing shewed so liuelie, that now and then they might see them come with their emptie horsses sore wounded and hurt: and then men likewise mangled and blée|ding, that pitie it was to see them. And that which sée|med more strange and to be most maruelled at, the prints of their féet appeared in the ground, and the grasse troden downe in places where they had beene séene. The like sight was also séene more apparent|lie in Ireland, and in the parts thereabout.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Immediatlie followed, or rather precéeded passing great tempests of raine,Great raine. Matth. Paris. which filled the earth full of water, and caused monstruous flouds: for this raine continued all the space of the moneths of Ianua|rie, Februarie, and a great part of March; and for eight daies it rained (as some write) in maner with|out ceassing: Matth. West. and vpon the tenth of Februarie, imme|diatlie after the change of the moone, the Thames rose with such an high tide, that boats might haue beene rowed vp and downe in Westminster hall. In the winter before, on the twentith of December, there chanced a great thunder,A great thunder. and on the first fridaie in December, which was the fift of that moneth, there was a counterfet sunne séene beside the true sunne. Moreouer, as in the spring precéeding there happened sore and excéeding great raines, so in the summer following there chanced a great drouth,A drie sum|mer. continuing by the space of foure moneths or more.