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.
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Sir Richard Sward de| [...]eth.Sir Richard Sward died this yeare, after he had laien a long time vexed with the palsie,
which sir Ri|chard had in his daies beene a right worthie and fa|mous knight. There died also the bishops of
Bash and saint Dauids.Death of bishops. In the first day of Iune, the moone
immediatlie vpon the setting of the sunne, was al|most wholie eclipsed,An eclipse.
so that little of hir might ap|peare.
Newcastell burnt by ca|suall fire. The archb. of Cant. curseth.