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Compare 1577 edition: 1 But the Englishmen valiantlie resisted, so that there was a sore battell for a while, and the more cou|ragiouslie the Welshmen assailed, the more stoutlie the Englishmen defended, in keeping themselues close togither, and beating backe their aduersaries: and at length perceiuing them to faint and wax wea|rie, they rushed foorth into the middle of the Welsh|men, & brake them in sunder, so that when they saw themselues thus repelled by the Englishmen, con|trarie vnto all their expectation, they knew not what to doo, for they durst neither fight nor flée,The Welsh discomfited. Rees ap Me|ridoc taken. and so by that meanes were beaten downe on euerie side. Me|ridoc himselfe was taken, but the most part of all his armie was slaine, to the number of foure thou|sand men. Thus were the Welshmen woorthilie cha|stised for their rebellion. Sir Rées ap Meridoc was had to Yorke, where at length, after the king was re|turned out of Gascoigne, he was hanged, drawen and quartered.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This yeare on S. Margarets euen, that is, Anno Reg. [...]. 128 [...] the 9 daie of Iulie, fell a woonderfull tempest of haile, that the like had not beene seene nor heard of by any man then liuing. And after, Hen. Ma [...]. A sore tem|pest of ha [...]e. Ran. H [...]gd. there insued such continuall raine, so distempering the ground, that corne waxed verie deare, so that wheras wheat was sold before at thrée pence a bushell,A great dearth be|ginneth. the market so rose by little and little, that it was sold for two shillings a bushell, and so the dearth increased still almost by the space of 40 yeares, till the death of Edward the second, in so much that sometime a bushell of wheat London mea|sure was sold at ten shillings.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king, after he had remained and continu|ed three yeares, two moneths, and fiftéene daies in Gascoine, and in other parts there beyond the sea, he returned into England on the fourth day of August, and vpon the euen of the Assumption of our ladie he came to London, where he was most ioifullie re|ceiued, & so [...]ame to Westminster: where shortlie af|ter were presented vnto him manie gréeuous com|plaints and informations against diuerse of his iu|stices, as sir Thomas Weiland, Adam Stretton, and others, the which were had in examination, and thervpon found giltie of manie trespasses and trans|gressions, in so much that it was giuen him to vnder|stand, that there were among them that had giuen consent to the committing of murthers and robbe|ries, and wittinglie had receiued the offendors. Wherevpon, Chron. Dun. the king caused streight inquirie to be made by an inquest of 12 substantiall personages, who found by verdict,Thomas Weiland lord chéefe iustice of the kings bench. that Thomas Weiland lord chéefe iustice of the kings bench, had caused a mur|ther to be doone by his seruants, and after succoured and mainteined them: hervpon he was by the kings officers arrested, but escaping their hands, he tooke sanctuarie in the church of the friers minors at saint Edmundesburie, and was admitted into their habit, but within fourtie daies after, order was giuen by the king that no kind of vittels should be suffered to be conueied to that house, so that all the friers came foorth, except three or foure, and at length he was con|streined to take vpon him a laie mans apparell, and comming foorth was deliuered to the hands of Ro|bert Malet knight,Robert Ma|let. who had before the custodie of him, and now hauing him againe brought him to the towre of London. At length, he was put to his choise of thrée waies, which soeuer of them he would take, that is, whether to be tried by his péeres, or to re|maine in perpetuall prison, or to abiure the realme: he chose the last, and so bare-footed and bare-headed, bearing a crosse in his hand, he was conueied from the towre to Douer, where taking the sea, he was transported to the further side of the sea; his goods, mooueable and vnmooueable,William Brampton Roger Lei|cester, [...] Iohn Luneth being confis [...]at [...] to the kings coffers.

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