Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king by a shift got of the Londoners 1000 marks. For as it happened about the same time the youthfull citizens (for an exercise and triall of their actiuitie) had set foorth a game to run at the quin|tine, and whosoeuer did best,Running at the quintine. should haue a peacocke which they had prepared for a prise. Certeine of the kings seruants, bicause the court laie then at West|minster, came (as it were in spite of the citizens) to the game, and giuing reprochfull names to the Lon|doners (which for the dignitie of the citie and ancient priuileges which they ought to haue inioied were called barons) the said Londoners not able to beare so to be misused, fell vpon the kings seruants,The Londo|ners called Barons. and bet them shrewdlie, so that vpon complaint, the king cau|sed the citizens to fine for their rash dooings. Wherein the Londoners followed the counsell of him that in a case of strife, said
Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito,Audaces fortuna iuuat.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, about the same time, the king vpon displeasure conceiued against the earle of Leicester, had caused him to resigne his office of the warden|ship of Gascoigne:The earle of Leicester re|signeth his go+uernment of Gascoigne. and bicause the earle had it by patent, the king not able to find any iust cause of for|feiture, agréed to paie vnto him for the resignation no small portion of monie. And whereas the Gas|coignes had charged the earle with too much streict EEBO page image 248 handling of them, whereby they were occasioned to raise tumults, the matter was now nothing at all a|mended. For after the earle had resigned, they conti|nued still in rebellion,The Rioll, S. Mill [...]on, townes in Gascoigne. so that the Rioll with S. Milli|ons and other places were taken by the aduersaries out of the kings hands, and great slaughter of people made in those parts: wherefore the king minding to go thither, caused musters to be taken, and men put in a redinesse according to the custome, that he might vnderstand what number of able men furnished for the warre were to be had. He also tooke order that e|uerie man that might dispend yeerlie fiftéene pounds in lands should be made knight.Knights to be made.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Moreouer, for the better preseruation of peace and quietnesse amongst his people, he appointed watch to be kept by night in cities and borough townes. And further by the aduise of the Sauoisines, which were about him,An ordinance against rob|bers. he ordeined that if any man chanced to be robbed, or by any meanes damnified by any théefe or robber, he to whom the kéeping of that coun|trie cheefelie apperteined where the robberie was doone, should competentlie restore the losse: and this was after the vsage of Sauoy, but was thought more hard to be obserued here, than in those parts, where are not so manie bypaths and starting corners to shift out of the waie. ¶ The Gascoignes continu|ed in their seditious dooings, and namelie Gascon de Bierne, who renouncing his dutie and obedience to the king of England ioined himselfe to the king of Spaine, through his helpe to be the stronger & more able to annoie the English subiects. The euill intrea|ting vsed towards the Gascoignes which brought hither wines,The cause yt mooued the Gascoignes to rebellion. in that the same were oftentimes ta|ken from them by the kings officers, and other, with|out readie monie allowed for the sale, gaue occasion to them to grudge and repine against the king.