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Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this the king went to Winchester, and from thence came backe vnto Reading, Chron. Dun. and then he mar|ched foorth with his armie vnto Douer, where he could not be suffered to come into the castell, being kept out by the lord Richard Gray that was capteine there. Herevpon he returned to London, where the barons againe were entred, through fauour of the commoners, against the will of the chéefe citizens, and here they fell eftsoones to treat of agréement, Abington. but their talke profited nothing. And so in the Christmasse wéeke the king, with his sonne prince Edward and diuerse other of the councell sailed ouer againe into France,The king go|eth again ouer to the French king. and went to Amiens, where they found the French king, and a great number of his Nobles. Al|so for the barons, Peter de Montford, and other were sent thither as commissioners, and as some write, at that present, to wit on the 24 daie of Ianuarie, the French king sitting in iudgement, pronounced his definitiue sentence on the bahalfe of king Henrie a|gainst the barons: Fabian. but whether he gaue that sentence now, or the yeare before, the barons iudged him verie parciall, and therefore meant not to stand vnto his arbitrement therein.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king hauing ended his businesse with the French king, returned into England, and came to London the morrow after S. Ualentines day. And about seuen or eight daies after, the lord Edward his eldest sonne returned also, and hearing that the barons were gone to the marshes of Wales (where ioining with the Welshmen, they had begun to make warre against the kings freends, and namelie against his lieutenant Roger lord Mortimer, whome they had besieged in the castell of Wigmore) the lord Edward therevpon, with such power as he could get togither, marched thitherwards to raise their siege: but the lord Mortimer perceiuing himselfe in dan|ger, fled priuilie out of the castell, and got to Hereford, whither the prince was come. The barons inforced their strength in such wise that they wan the castell. Nic. Triue [...]. Castels got|ten by prince Edward. Prince Edward on the other side tooke the castels of Haie and Huntington that belonged vnto the earle of Hereford yoong Henrie de Boun.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The castell of Brecknoc was also deliuered into his hands, which he béetooke to the kéeping of the lord Roger de Mortimer, with all the territorie thereto belonging. Robert earle of Darbie that tooke part with the barons, besieged the citie of Worcester, and tooke it by the old castell,Worcester taken. sacked the citizens goods, and constreined the Iewes to be baptised. The citie of Glocester also was taken by the barons: but prince Edward following them and reparing the bridge o|uer Seuerne, which the barons had broken downe af|ter they were come ouer, he entred the castell of Glo|cester with his people. The next day by procurement of Walter bishop of Worcester, a truce was taken betwixt prince Edward and the barons that had ta|ken the towne, during the which truce the barons left the towne, and the burgesses submitted themselues vnto prince Edward: and so he hauing the castell and towne in his hands, Matth. We [...]. The citie of Glocester [...] couered, and put to fin [...]. imprisoned manie of the burgesses, & fined the towne at the summe of a thou|sand pounds. Then he drew towards his father li|eng at Oxford, or at Woodstoke, gathering people to|gither on ech hand.

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