Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 The earle of Glocester greatlie incouraged by their assistance, fell in hand to assaile the tower, with|in the which the popes legat Othobone, and diuerse other were inclosed, taking vpon them to defend it against the earle and all his puissance. The king vp|on the first newes of the earle of Glocester his com|motion,The king ma|keth hard shift for monie to hire soldiers & men of war to assist him. ingaged the shrines of saints, and other iewels and relikes of the church of Westminster vn|to certeine merchants for great summes of monie, with the which sending into France and Scotland, he reteined men of warre to come to his aid. Here|vpon his sonne prince Edward came to his succour vnto Cambridge, bringing thither with him thirtie thousand able men out of the north parts, Scots and other.The K. remoo|ueth towards Windsore. The king then leauing a conuenient number to defend Cambridge, marched from thence toward Windsore. After his comming thither, his armie dailie increased. The earle of Glocester and his complices, began to feare the matter, and sent to him for peace which could not be granted: wherevpon they appointed to giue him batell vpon Houndslow heath. The king comming thither in the morning, found no man there to resist him, and therefore, after he had staied there a certeine space,The king commeth to Stratford. Fabian. he marched foorth and came to Stratford, where he was lodged in the ab|beie: his hoast incamped and laie at Ham and ther|abouts.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This chanced about three weekes after Easter. Matth. Westm. The souldiers which laie in London and in South|warke, did much hurt about in the countrie of Sou|therie, & else-where. They also spoiled the towne of Westminster, and the parish-church there: but the moonks and the goods belonging to the abbeie they touched not,Westminster spoiled. but made hauocke in the kings pa|lace, drinking vp & destroieng his wine, breaking the glasse windowes, and defacing the buildings most disorderlie, yea scarse forbearing to set the house on fire. Also there were of them that brake vp & robbed certeine houses in London, of the which misgouerned persons there were foure taken, that ware the cogni|sance of the earle of Darbie,Soldiers sac|ked and thro|wen into the Thames. whome the earle of Glocester caused to be put in sackes, and so throwne into the Thames.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 As the king thus laie at Stratford, there came vnto him from the parts of beyond the sea,The earles of Bullongne & S. Paule. A fleét of Gas|coins come to the kings aid. the earle of Bullongne, and S. Paule, with two hundred men of armes, and their suit of other souldiers. Also there ariued in the Thames a fléet of great vessels fraught with Gascoins, and laie afore the tower, abiding the kings pleasure. ¶The earle of Glocester had caused bulworks and barbicans to be made betwixt the tower and the citie; and also in sundrie places where need required ditches and trenches were cast, so that the citie was stronglie fortified. Howbeit now that the said erle and his complices perceiued themselues in manner as besieged, they sought for peace. And by mediation of the king of Almaine, Abington. A peace con|cluded. the lord Philip Basset and the legat Othobone, the same was gran|ted, the ordinance of Killingworth in euerie conditi|on obserued.The Londo|ners pardoned The Londoners were pardoned of their trespasse for receiuing the earle, though they were constreined to paie a thousand marks to the king of Romans, in recompense of the hurts doone to him in burning of his house at Thistleworth.