Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus whilest both parts kept so farre from all hope of agreement, and were now in point to haue depar|ted in sunder, through mediation of some bishops that were present a peace was concluded, and the parties so agréed, that all matters in controuersie touching the articles, prouisions, and statutes made at Oxenford should be ordered and iudged by the French king,The matter put to the French king. whom they chose as arbitrator betwixt them. Herevpon, on the thirtéenth of September, both the king and quéene, with their sonnes, and di|uerse other of the nobles of this land, tooke shipping, and sailed ouer to Bullongne, where the French king as then was at a parlement, with a great number of the nobles and péeres of France. The earle of Lei|cester also with diuerse of his complices went thi|ther, and there the matter was opened, argued, and debated before the French king, who in the end vpon due examination, and orderlie hearing of the whole processe of all their controuersies, gaue expresse sen|tence, that all and euerie of the said statutes and or|dinances deuised at Oxford,The French king giueth sentence against the barons. should be from thence|foorth vtterlie void, and all bonds and promises made by king Henrie, or anie other for performance of them, should likewise be adnihilated, fordoone, and clearelie cancelled.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The barons highlie displeased herewith, refused to stand to the French kings award herein, bicause he had iudged altogither on the kings side. Wherevpon after they were returned into the realme, either par|tie prepared for warre: but yet about the feast of S. EEBO page image 266 Edward, the king and the barons eftsoones met at London, holding a new parlement at Westmin|ster, but no good could be doone. Then when the king of Almaine and prince Edward, Anno Reg. 4 8. with others of the kings councell saw that by rapine, oppression, and ex|tortion practised by the barons against the kings sub|iects, Matth. Wes [...]m. as well spirituall as temporall, the state of the realme and the kings honour was much decaied, and brought in manner vnto vtter ruine, they procu|red the king to withdraw secretlie from Westmin|ster vnto Windsore castell, of which his sonne prince Edward had gotten the possession by a traine. From Windsore he went to Reading, and from thence to Wallingford, and so to Oxford, hauing a great power with him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At his being at Oxford there came vnto him the lord Henrie,The lords that reuolted to the king. son to the king of Almaine, Iohn earle Warren, Roger Clifford, Roger Leiborne, Hai|mond le Strange, and Iohn de Uaux, which had ree+uolted from the barons to the kings side, Iohn Gif|ford also did the like: but he shortlie after returned to the barons part againe. The kings sonne the lord Edward had procured them thus to reuolt, promi|sing to euerie of them in reward by his charter of grant fiftie pounds lands to aid the king his father and him against the barons.