Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 King Henrie remained at Blaie vntill the feast of the Assumption of our ladie, and then went to Burdeaux to visit the queene, who in this meane while was brought to bed about midsummer of a yoong ladie, whom they named Beatrice after the queenes mother. Now whilest king Henrie was thus occupied in Poictou and Gascoine, William Marisch, William Ma|risch executi [...]. the sonne of Geffrie Marisch (by commandement sent from the king) was put to death at London, with sixteene of his complices on the euen of S.Iames the apostle. This William Marisch falling in to the kings displeasure, got him to the sea, and plaied the rouer, kéeping the Ile of Lundaie in the west countrie, till finallie he was taken and brought pri|soner vnto the towre, where he was charged with sundrie articles of treason, as that he should hire that counterfeit mad man which sought to haue murthe|red the king at Woodstoke, as before ye haue heard. Howbeit when he should die,Sée pag. 223. he vtterlie denied that euer he was priuie to anie such thing. He was first had from Westminster to the towne, & from thence drawne to the gibet, and there hanged till he was dead, and after being cut downe, had his bowels rip|ped out and burned, and when his head was cut off, the bodie was diuided into foure quarters, and sent vnto foure of the principall cities of the realme. His complices were also drawne through the citie of London vnto the same gibet, and there hanged.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 In the time of this warre also betwixt England and France,The seas tr [...]|ebled with men of warre. there was much hurt doone on the sea be|twixt them of the cinque ports and the Frenchmen of Normandie, and other: as the Caleis men and the Britons, which did make themselues as strong as they could against the Englishmen by sea. Where|vpon diuerse incounters chanced betwixt them, but more to the losse of the Englishmen, than of the Frenchmen: in somuch that they of the ports were constreined to require aid of the archb. of Yorke the lord gouernour of the realme. About which time, and after the king was withdrawen to Burdeaux, diuers noble men, as the earles of Norffolke and Winche|ster, with others, got licence to returne into Eng|land. Soone after whose arriuall, escuage was gathe|red through the realme towards the bearing of the kings charges. Moreouer,Escuage ga|thered 20 shil|lings of euerie knights fée. Matth. West. Death of noble men. in this yeare of the king there died sundrie noble men of naturall infirmities, as the earle of Warwike, Gilbert de Gaunt, Bald|win Wake, Philip de Kime, and Roger Berthram of the north, with diuerse other. Howbeit the king himselfe returned not home, but laie all the winter time at Burdeaux, meaning to attempt manie en|terprises, but he brought none to passe, sauing that in protracting the time, he spent much monie, and to lit|tle purpose.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About the beginning of the seuen and twentith yeare of his reigne, Anno. Reg. 27. his brother the earle of Corne|wall, misliking the order of things which he saw dai|lie in the king his brothers procéedings, would néeds returne backe into England, but chieflie when he per|ceiued that his councell & aduise could not be heard. The king was sore offended herewith, but he could not well remedie the matter, nor persuade him to ta|rie. And so the said earle of Cornewall,The earle of Cornwal and other returne home. togither with the earles of Penbroke and Hereford, and diuerse o|ther noble men tooke the sea, and after manie dan|gers escaped in their course, at length on S. Lucies daie they arriued in Cornewall, though some of the vessels that were in the companie were driuen by force of the tempestuous weather vpon other con|trarie coasts. ¶About this season also, that is to saie, EEBO page image 231 on the day of S. Edmund the king, there happened a maruellous tempest of thunder and lightening, and therwith followed such an excéeding raine (which con|tinued many daies togither) that riuers rose on mar|uellous heigth, and the Thames it selfe, which sildome riseth or is increased by land flouds, passing ouer the banks, drowned all the countrie for the space of six miles about Lambeth, so that none might get into Westminster hall, except they were set on horsse|backe.