Compare 1577 edition: 1 The bishop of Chichester Richard Witz and Grosted b. of Lincolne depart this lifeThis yeare died Richard Witz the bishop of Chi|chester, a man of great vertue and singular know|ledge. Also that famous clearke Robert Grosted bi|shop of Lincolne departed this life on the day of S. Denise in the night, at his manor of Bugdon, whose learning coupled with vertue and vprightnesse of life wan to him perpetuall commendation.The praise of Grosted. He was a manifest blamer of pope and king, a reproouer of prelats, a corrector of moonks, a director of preests, an instructor of clearkes, a susteinor of scholers, a prea|cher to the people, a persecutor of incontinent liuers, a diligent searcher of the scriptures, a contemnor and a verie mallet of such strangers as sought pre|ferment in this realme by the popes prouisions: in housekeeping liberall, in corporall refection plenti|full, and in ministring spirituall food, deuout and god|lie affected: in his bishoplike office diligent, reue|rend, and neuer wearied: a singular example of a bi|shop, speciallie in those daies, and at whose life our re|formed bishops may fetch light to abandon their darkenesse, and to amend that which is amisse in them, sith

Validiora sunt exempla quàm praecepta,

Leo papa.Et pleniùs docemur vita quàm verbo.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The L. Wil. Uescie depar|teth this life.Moreouer there died in Gascoigne, William de Uescie a baron of great fame in the north parts. Also in the spring and summer of this yeare was a great drought, and in the haruest season fell such wet, that great floods by the rising of the riuers,Great wet. and ouerflow|ing their banks, did much hurt in sundrie places of the realme. Againe in the later end of haruest about Michaelmasse, there was eftsoones such a drought, that men could get no grinding at the milles,Great drout. but were constreined to go in some places a daies iour|nie off, to haue their corne groond. In the eight and thirtith yeare of king Henries reigne, the quéene was deliuered of a daughter which was called Ka|therin, Anno Reg. 38. The ladie Ka+therin the kings daugh|ter borne. bicause the same was borne on saint Kathe|rins daie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 On S. Lucies daie, there fell a great snowe, and withall a winters thunder, for a token of some euill to follow.Winter thunder. The king to settle the state of the countrie of Gascoigne in better order, tarried there all the winter, and repared certeine decaied townes and ca|stels. The quéene kept hir Christmasse at London, where she laie in child-bed, and was purified on the euen of the Epiphanie, making a roiall feast, at the which manie great lords were present, as the archbi|shop of Canturburie, the bishop of Elie, the earls of Cornewall and Glocester, and manie other. She sent ouer at the same time to hir husband for a new yeers gift the summe of fiue hundred marks of hir owne reuenues,The quéenes liberalitie to|wards the K. towards the maintenance of his warres. On the euen of the Circumcision of our Lord,A strang sight in the aire. in the night season, whilest the aire was most cleare and bright with shining starres, the moone being eight daies old, there appeared in the element the perfect forme and likenesse of a mightie great ship, which was first séene of certeine moonks of saint Albons, who remaining at saint Amphibalus,Redborne. were got vp to behold by the starres, if it were time for them to go to mattens; but perceiuing that strange sight, they called vp such of their acquaintance as lodged néere at hand, to view the same. At length it séemed as the bourds and ioints thereof had gone in sunder, and so it vanished awaie. There followed a maruellous sore later end of a winter, through cold and ouer|sharpe weather, which continued till the feast of S. Gregorie in March next insuing.A death of sheepe. Also there chanced the same yeare a great murren and death of shéepe and deere, so that of whole flocks and heards scarse the one halfe escaped.