Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The king did celebrate the feast of Christmasse at Yorke, whither came Alexander the yoong king of Scots, and was there made knight by the king of England, and on saint Stephans day he married the ladie Margaret, daughter to the king of England, according to the assurance before time concluded. There was a great assemblie of noble personages at that feast. The quéene Dowager of Scotland mother to king Alexander, a French woman of the house of Coucie,The house of Coucie. had passed the sea, & was present there with a faire companie of lords and gentlemen. The num|ber of knights that were come thither on the king of Englands part were reckoned to be at the point of one thousand. The king of Scots had with him thrée score knights,The king of Scots did ho|mage to the K. of England. and a great sort of other gentlemen comparable to knights. The king of Scots did ho|mage to the king of England at that time for the realme of Scotland, and all things were doone with great loue and fauour, although at the beginning some strife was kindled about taking vp of lodg|ings.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This assemblie of the princes cost the archbishop verie déerelie, in feasting and banketting them and their traines. At one dinner it was reported he spent at the first course thréescore fat oxen. ¶At request of the K. of Scots, the K. of England receiued Philip Lunell againe into fauour, or rather Louell (as I take it) one of his councell, against whome he had conceiued displeasure in the yeare last past, for such briberie as he was thoght to be giltie of for shewing fauour to the Iewes. The king of Scots when he should depart, tooke his leaue in most courteous ma|ner, and led with him his new married wife, on whome attended sir Robert Norice knight marshall of the kings house,Sir Robert Norice, and sir Stephan Bausan. and sir Stephan Bausan, and also the ladie Mawd, the widowe of the lord William Cantlow,An excéeding great wind. with others. On the octaues of the Epipha|nie chanced an excéeding great wind, which did much hurt in diuerse places of the realme. The bishop of Rochester returning frõ the court of Rome,The bishop of Rochest. bull. brought with him a bull, authorising him to receiue to his own vse the fift part of the reuenues of all the beneficed men within his diocesse.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this meane while the earle of Leicester remai|ning in England,The Gas|coignes make warre against the English subiects. the Gascoignes made sore warre against such as he had left behind him, and withall gaue information to the king that the earle of Leice|ster was a traitor, and one that had spoiled the kings subiects: and furthermore by his vniust dealings had giuen to the Gascoignes cause of rebellion. The king to boult out the truth of this matter, sent first his chapleine Henrie Wingham, and afterwards sir Nicholas de Moles de Ualence, as commissio|ners to inquire of the earles dooing, who went and re|turned without finding any manifest crime in the earles demeanor. The earle was much offended that his innocencie should be thus suspected; but at length being appointed to returne into Gascoigne, he obeied and hauing a great summe of monie, he reteined a power of men of warre, as well Frenchmen as o|thers, and meaning to be reuenged of those that had giuen the information against him, he strengthened himselfe with the aid of the king of Nauarre, and of the earle of Bigorre and other, so that he oppressed his aduersaries on ech hand, and so abated their pride,The earle of Leicester danteth his enimies. that if conuenientlie they might, they would haue yeelded themselues to some other prince, and vtterlie haue renounced the K. of England for euer. Where|by it should seeme that he was throughlie reuenged of them euen to their no small smart, not in word and threatning, but with sword and bloud-shedding, de|fending his innocencie, and manfullie shewing his warlike mind. But yet he had purchased to himselfe a greater portion of praise, if he had not with weapon but with wisedome made a conquest of the enimie: according to this sound counsell of a sage writer;
On the thirtéenth day of March,A strange wonder of the new moone. the new moone was séene, whereas the prime change by naturall course should not haue beene till the sixtéenth day following; and for the space of fiftéene daies that then next insu|ed, the sunne, the moone, and starres appeared of a red colour. And herewith the whole face of the earth sée|med as it had béene shadowed with a thicke mist or smoke, the wind notwithstanding remaining north and northeast. Then began a sore drought, continu|ing a long time,A great drought. the which togither with morning frosts, and northerlie winds, destroied the fruits and other growing things, which were blasted in such wise, that although at the first it was a verie forward yeare, and great plentie towards of corne and fruit, yet by the means aforesaid, the same was greatlie hindered and speciallie in the summer season, when the sunnes heat increased, and the drought still con|tinued.Ingenio studeas magè quàm superare furore,Mal. Pal. in suo cap.Ingenio vires cedunt, prudentia victrixCuncta domat.