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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The English barons not well able to suffer such presumption in strangers, who seemed to haue them in derision, complained to the king, in so much that at length, as well for a reformation hereof, as in o|ther things, a parlement was called (as before you haue heard) first at London, and after reiorned to Oxenford, there to be assembled about the feast of saint Barnabe in the moneth of Iune. This (of some writers) is named Insanum parliamentum,Insanum par|liamentum. that is to say, The mad parlement; for at this parlement (to the which the lords came with great retinues of armed men, for the better safegard of their persons) manie things in the same yeare enacted contrarie to the kings pleasure, and his roiall prerogatiue. For the lords at the first determined to demand the confir|mation of the ancient charter of liberties,The demand of the lords. which his father king Iohn had granted, and he himselfe had so often promised to obserue and mainteine, signifieng plainelie, that they meant to pursue their purpose and intent herein, not sparing either for losse of life, lands or goods, according to that they had mutuallie giuen their faiths by ioining of hands, as the manner in such cases is accustomed. Besides the grant of the great charter, they required other things necessarie for the state of the common-wealth, to be established and enacted.