Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 The parlement still continued, till the sundaie af|ter the Ascension day, with hard hold betwixt the king and the lords, who laid it fore to his charge, that EEBO page image 258 he had not performed the promises which he made touching the obseruing of the liberties conteined in the great charter. They also complained greatlie of his misgouernance, in that he so much aduanced the Poictouins and other strangers, to the impouerish|ment of himselfe and the whole realme, and further, mainteined them so far foorth, that they were readie to offer wrong vnto other, vpon presumption of his fauour and bearing with them, he hauing by com|mandement restreined that no processe should passe out of the chancerie against certeine of them that were his coosins, as the earle of Penbroke and others. Finallie, when the lords were in doubt which way to worke for their owne safeties,The parlemẽt proroged. they caused the parle|ment to be proroged, till the feast of saint Barnabe, then to begin againe at Oxford. In the meane time the lords of the realme, as the earles of Glocester, Leicester, Hereford and Northfolke, with other, did confederate themselues togither, bicause they stood in feare to be intrapped by the kings subtill sleights, and by the craftie wiles of those strangers whom he retained against them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the same yeare by the wind, which continuallie certeine months togither kept northerlie, the flours, with other growing things, were so hindered, that scarselie they appeared to anie purpose,A late growth till the most part of Iune was past, wherevpon the hope of recei|uing the fruits of the earth was quite taken away,I dearth ac|companied with a death. & so vpon the great dearth that happened, a sore death and mortalitie followed, for want of necessarie food to susteine the pining bodies of the poore people. They died so thicke, that there were great pits made in churchyards to laie the dead bodies in one vpon an other.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About the feast of the Ascension, Seuall the archbi|shop of Yorke departed this life,Seuall archb. of Yorke depar+teth this life. who constantlie had resisted the tyrannie of the court of Rome, in defense of his church, suffering in this world manie greeuous tribulations, but now was remooued from thense vnto the kingdome of heauen, Matth. Paris. to be crowned with the elect for his good deseruings, as was then certen|lie beleeued. About this time, a great number of Poi|ctouins were come into England, by reason of their aliance and coosinage to the king, the which by the kings fauour being highlie aduanced, began to war proud thereof, and to require to be restored vnto such lands and liuings as before time they had possessed: namelie the kings halfe brethren, Athelmare or O|domare,The kings halfe brethren. that was a préest, with William, Geffrey and Guie, these were the sonnes of Hugh le Brun earle of Marsh, by his wife queene Isabell, the mo|ther of king Henrie, and being come into England, they shewed themselues verie loftie & high-minded, partlie, bicause of their coosinage to the king, & part|lie by reason of his courteous interteining of them, insomuch that forgetting themselues, they began to despise (vpon a presumptuous pride) the English no|bilitie, looking still for preferment of honor aboue all other. And suerlie Odomare obteined at the first a great peece of his purpose, being made by the kings gift bishop of Winchester, and by that means bare a stout port, and greatlie holpe and mainteined his o|ther brethren.