Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time, by reason that the sterling monie was generallie so clipped,An ordinance for monie. that the inscription was cut off for the most part euen to the inner circle, a proclamation was set foorth, that no péeces thereof should passe from one to an other, nor be receiued as currant and lawfull monie, except the same were of iust weight and fashion. Herewith also inquirie was made for those that had so defaced it, and sundrie Iewes bankers, and cloth-merchants of Flanders were found giltie.Inquirie made for wa|shers & clip|pers of monie. Also, the French king caused serch to be made within his realme for the same offendors, and such as were found giltie, were hanged, so that he was more seuere in punishing those falsifiers of the king of Englands coine, than the king of Eng|land was himselfe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The parlement began againe at the day appoin|ted, but nothing to accompt of was then concluded, but rather a displeasure kindled betwixt the king and his barons, for that they looked for a reformation in his dooings, Matth. Paris. The parlemẽt dissolued. and he for monie out of their coffers, which would not be granted, and so that parlement brake vp.The king dri|uen to sell his plate. The king herevpon for want of monie, was driuen to so hard a shift, that he was constreined to sell his plate and iewels (which the Londoners bought) so much to his hinderance, that diuers péeces (the workemanship whereof was more woorth than the value of the stuffe) were sold notwithstanding af|ter the rate as they weied.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This yeare, the king caused a faire to be kept at Westminster at saint Edwards tide,S. Edwards faire at West|minster. to indure for fiftéene daies, and to the end that the same should be the more haunted with all manner of people, he com|manded by proclamation, that all other faires, as Elie, and such like holden in that season, should not be kept, nor that any wares should be shewed within the citie of London, either in shop or without, but that such as would sell, should come for that time vn|to Westminster: which was doone, not without great trouble and paines to the citizens, which had not roome there, but in booths and tents, to their great disquieting and disease, for want of necessarie prouision, being turmoiled too pitifullie in mire and dirt, through occasion of raine that fell in that vnsea|sonable time of the yeare. The bishop of Elie com|plained sore of the wrong doone to him by suspending his faire at Elie aforesaid.