Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After that king Henrie had continued there for his pleasure certeine daies, he returned to England, landing at Douer in Christmasse weeke. This iour|nie into Gascoigne was verie costlie, and to small purpose (as writers haue recorded) for the kings char|ges amounted to the summe of 27 hundred thousand pounds and aboue, except lands and rents, which he gaue vnaduisedlie to those which l [...]ttle deserued, but rather sought the hinderance both of him and his realme, besides the gift of [...]0 thousand marks, which he bestowed vpon his halfe brethren by the mothers side, not reckoning the lands nor rents, neither yet the wards nor the horsses, nor iewels which he gaue to them besides, being of price inestimable. Thus in two iournies which he made, the one into Poictou, which countrie he lost; and the other into Gascoigne, which he hardlie preserued; he spent more treasure than a wise chapman would haue giuen for them both if they had béene set on sale (as Matthew Par [...] writeth) so that it might be verified in him that is meant by the old prouerbe,

Qui procul excurrit, sed nil mercatur ibidem,

Sivia longa fuit, rediens tristatur hic idem.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer to increase the kings vaine charges, so it fell out, that pope Innocent bearing grudge to|wards Conrade king of Sicill, offered that king|dome (as before is partlie touched) to Richard duke of Cornewall, who refused the offer, aswell for other causes, as chieflie for that the pope would not agrée to such conditions as earle Richard thought necessa|rie for his assurance. Wherevpon the pope granted that kingdome vnto king Henrie,The pope of|fereth y^e king|dome of Si|cill vnto the king of Eng|land. with manie good|lie promises of aid to his furtherance for atteining the possession thereof. King Henrie ioifullie receiued that grant, and called his sonne Edmund openlie by the name of K. of Sicill, and to furnish the pope with monie for the maintenance of his war against Con|rade, he got togither all such sums as he could make, aswell out of his owne coffers, and out of the exche|ker, as by borrowing of his brother earle Richard, and likewise what he could scrape from the Iewes,The K. ma|keth great shift for monie to send to the pope. or otherwise extort by the rapine of the iustices itine|rants: all which he sent to the pope, who not con|tent herwith (when he began ef [...]s [...]ns to want) wrote againe to the king for more.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king through the instinct of the diuell, to an|swer the popes auarice,He sendeth to the pope a wa|rant to take vp monie. sent him letters patents ob|ligatorie, signed with his roiall seale, by which he might take by way of lone such summes of monie, as would largelie serue his turne of the merchants Ita|lians, willing him not to sticke at the disbursing of treasure, nor at the great quantitie of the interest ri|sing vpon the vsurie, for he would discharge all: and herevnto he bound himselfe vnder paine to forfeit his kingdome and other his heritages. Matth. Paris The pope consenting herevnto, accepted this large offer. If he did well herein (saith Matthew Paris) the Lord the iudge of all iudges iudge it, to whom apperteineth the care of all things. To conclude,The pope is liberall of an other mans pursse. much monie was spent, for the pope spared not the king of Englands pursse, though little good was doone therewith. At length Conrade died, not without suspicion of poi|son. The pope being aduertised of his death, reioised greatlie, as he well vttered in plaine words, saieng;

Let vs all that be the children of the Romish church reioise, for now two of our greatest enimies are dis|patched out of the waie; the one a spirituall man, that is to saie, Robert bishop of Lincolne; and the other a laie-man, that is Conrade king of Sicill.Manfred pro|claimed king of Sicill.