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 y^t 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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 A parlement.In the quindene of Easter a parlement began at London, in which all the states being assembled, the matter was mooued for aiding the king with some reléefe of monie towards the iournie which he ment to make into the holie land: and so at length it was agréed that a tenth part of all the reuenues belong|ing to the church was granted to him for thrée yeares space,A tenth gran|ted of the spi|ritualtie. Escuage granted. and that escuage should be leuied for that yeare, after thrée markes of euerie knights fée, and the king on the other part promised faithfullie to ob|serue and mainteine the grant of the great charter, Magna charta. and all the articles conteined within the same. For further assurance whereof, on the third day of Maie, in the great hall at Westminster, in the presence and by the assent of the king and the earles of Nor|folke, Hereford, Oxford, Warwike, and other No|ble men, by the archbishop of Canturburie as pri|mate, and by the bishops of London, Elie, Lincolne, Worcester, Norwich, Hereford, Salisburie, Dur|ham, Excester, Carliell, Bath, Rochester, and S. Da|uies, reuested and apparelled in pontificalibus, with tapers, according to the maner, the sentence of ex|communication was pronounced against all trans|gressors of the liberties of the church, and of the anci|ent liberties and customes of the realme of Eng|land, and namelie those which are conteined in the great charter, and in the charter of forrest.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Whilest the sentence was in reading, the king held his hand vpon his breast with glad and chéerefull countenance, and when in the end they threw awaie their extinct and smoking tapers, saieng,

So let them be extinguished and sinke into the pit of hell which run into the dangers of this sentence; the king said, So helpe me God, as I shall obserue and kéepe all these things, euen as I am a christian man, as I am a knight, and as I am a king crowned and annoin|ted.