Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus Dauid being incouraged herewith and such o|ther of the Welshmen as tooke his part, at time ap|pointed did set vpon the kings capteins as they stra|gled abroad, whom at the first brunt they put to flight, and slue manie of them here and there as they tooke them at aduenture. The Englishmen when night was come, and that the Welshmen withdrew to rest, assembled themselues againe togither, and in the morning with new recouered force both of mind and bodie, came vpon all the Welshmen, and began with them a new battell, which continued the space of thrée houres togither,The Welsh|men discom|fited. till at length the Welshmen, which rashlie had entred the fight, began to shrinke backe, and fled to their woonted places of refuge, the woods and mareshes. Their chiefe capteine Dauid fled into Scotland,Dauid fled in|to Scotland. hauing lost in that battell the most part of all his souldiers which he had there with him. At his comming into Scotland, and whilest he there remai|ned, he incensed king Alexander against king Hen|rie to his vttermost power, putting into his head how reprochfullie the Englishmen did speake of the Scots,He prouoketh the king of Scots to make warre against En|gland. reprouing them of cowardnes & lacke of sto|mach; also that they liued according to the prescript of the English nation, as subiects to the same: and manie other things he forged, which had béene able to haue mooued a most patient man vnto indignation and displeasure.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king of Scots inua|deth Englãd.Finallie, either by the prouoking of this Dauid, or by som [...] other occasion, king Alexander meant to make warres vpon king Henrie indéed, and in rai|sing an armie made a rode into England, and did some hurt by incursions, and further signified to king Henrie, as some write, that he neither ought nor would hold anie part or portion of Scotland of the king of England. Matth. Paris. King Henrie sore offended here|with, purposed in time to be reuenged, and shortlie af|ter called a parlement at Westminster,King Henrie requireth an aid of monie of his subiects in the which he earnestlie mooued the lords and other states to aid him with monie towards the furnishing of his cof|fers, being emptied (as they knew) by his excéeding charges in his last iournie into Gascoigne. He would not open his meaning which he had to make warre to the Scots, bicause he would haue his enterprise secretlie kept, till he should be readie to set forward.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But although the king had got the pope to write in his fauour vnto the lords both spirituall and tem|porall, to aid him in that his demand of monie, there was much adoo, and plaine deniall made at the first, to grant at that time to anie such paiment as was demanded: and eftsoones they fell in hand with deui|sing new orders, and namelie to renew againe their suit for the confirmation of the ancient liberties of the realme,New orders deuised by the lords. so as the same might be obserued, accor|ding to the grant thereof before made by the kings letters patents, without all fraud or contradiction. They also appointed, that there should be foure lords chosen of the most puissant and discréetest of all other within the realme, which should be sworne of the kings councell, to order his businesse iustlie and tru|lie, and to see that euerie man had right without re|specting of persons. And these foure chiefe councel|lors should be euer attending about the king, or at the least thrée or two of them: also that by the view, knowledge and witnesse of them, the kings treasure should be spent and laid foorth, and that if one of them chanced to fall awaie, an other should be placed in his roome by the appointment of the residue.