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Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the octaues of S. Martine, the king held a par|lement at Marleborough,A parlement at Marle|borough. where the liberties contei|ned in the booke called Magna charta were cõfirmed, and also diuerse other good and wholesome ordinances concerning the state of the common-wealth were established and enacted. ¶ In the moneth of Aprill there chanced great thunder, tempestuous raine, and flouds, occasioned by the same, verie sore & horrible, continuing for the space of fifteene daies togither. The legat Othobone, after he had in the synods hol|den at Northampton and London, deuised and made manie orders and rules for churchmen, and leuied a|mongst them great summes of monie,

The legat Othobone returneth to Rome.

Othobone chosen pope.

finallie in the moneth of Iulie, he tooke leaue of the king and re|turned to Rome, where after the deceasse of Inno|cent the fift, about the yeare of our Lord 1276 he was chosen pope, and named Adrian the fift, liuing not past 50 daies after. He went so néere hand to search out things at his going awaie, Abington. that he had inrolled the true value of all the churches and benefices in England, and tooke the note with him to Rome.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Prince Edward the kings sonne, and diuerse o|ther great lords of England before this legats depar|ture out of the realme,Prince Ed|ward recei|ueth the crosse. receiued the crosse at his hands in Northampton on Midsummer day, mea|ning shortlie after according to promise there made, to go into the holie land to warre against Gods e|nimies. Fabian. A fraie in Lõ|don betwéene the gold|smiths and tailors. In this yeare fell great variance betwéene the corporations or fellowships of the goldsmiths and tailors within the citie of London, wherevnto e|uill words flowing from the toong gaue originall, for

Pondus valde graue verbosum vas sine claue,
so that one euening there were assembled to the number of fiue hundred in the stréets in armour, and running togither made a fowle fraie, so that manie were wounded and some slaine. But the shiriffes hearing thereof, came & parted them, with assistance of other trades, and sent diuerse of them being taken vnto prison, of the which there were arreigned to the number of thirtie, and thirtéene of them condemned and hanged.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the fiftie & third yeare of king Henries reigne, there was such an excéeding great frost, Anno. Reg. 53. Thames frosen. beginning at saint Andrewes tide, and continuing till it was néere candlemasse, that the Thames from the bridge vpwards was so hard frosen, that men and beasts passed ouer on féet from Lambeth to Westminster, and so westward in diuerse places vp to Kingston. Also merchandize was brought from Sandwich and other places vnto London by land. For the ships by reason of the yce could not enter the Thames. ¶And about the feast of S. Uedast, which falleth on the 6 of Februarie, fell so great abundance of raine, that the Thames rose so high, as it had not doone at any time before, to remembrance of men then liuing; so that the cellars and vaults in London by the water side were drowned, and much merchandize marred & lost.

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