Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But now to touch more at large the circumstan|ces of the occasion that mooued the earle of Flan|ders to make war against the French king.A mariage concluded. I find (in Iacob Meir) that there was a marriage conclu|ded betwixt the lord Edward the eldest son of king Edward, and the ladie Philip daughter to the fore|said Guie earle of Flanders, which marriage was concluded by Henrie bishop of Lincolne, and the EEBO page image 297 earle Warren, being sent ouer as ambassadours by king Edward, vnto the said earle Guie for the same purpose.The earle of Flanders arrested. In the yeare following, the said earle of Flanders, togither with his wife, comming to visit the French king at Corbeill, were arrested, and sent to Paris, there to remaine as prisoners, bicause that the earle had affianced his daughter to the French kings aduersarie, without his licence: neither might they be deliuered, till by mediation of the pope (who must néeds meddle in the matter by vertue of his peremptorie power, & all christendome must veile the bonnet to his holinesse, or rather abhominablenesse,

Ille etenim toto sese iubet orbe colendum,

Cui nisi parueris, crede perire licet)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The earles daughter being sent for, and brought vnto Paris, the earle and his wife were released, and suffered to returne into Flanders,The earle of Flanders released re|turneth home. and shortlie after, the earle made earnest suit to haue his daughter re|stored vnto him againe, insomuch that he procured pope Boniface to be a meane for him to the French king; but all would not serue, no, though as some say the pope accurssed the French king for reteining hir, answer being made,The French kings answer to the pope. that matters perteining to worldlie gouernement, belonged not to the pope to discusse. Finallie, earle Guie, perceiuing he could not preuaile in that suit, to haue his daughter a|gaine, vpon high displeasure concluded to ioine in league with king Edward & his confederats.A new league betwixt the K. of England, the emperour and others against the French king. Here|vpon, at an assemblie or councell kept at Gerard|mount, there was a solemne league made and a|gréed betwixt Adolph the emperour of Almaine, Ed|ward king of England, Guie earle of Flanders, Iohn Duke of Brabant, Henrie earle of Bar, both sonnes in law to king Edward, and Albert duke of Austrich, against Philip king of France, and Iohn earle of Henault his partaker.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Matth. West. The merchants of Flanders procured the earle to conclude this league with king Edward, as some write, the rather in respect of the great commodities which rose to their countrie, by reason of the inter|course of merchandize vsed betwixt England and Flanders, and for that through aid of the English|men, they might the better withstand the malice, both of the French and of all other their enimies. This league being proclaimed in England, there were sent ouer into Flanders, the treasurer of the exche|ker, and diuerse other noble men, to fetch hostages from thence, and to giue to the earle fifteene thousand pounds of siluer, toward the fortifieng of his castels and holds. King Philip being hereof aduertised, by counsell of the peeres of his realme, sent two honora|ble personages, as the capteine of Mounstrell, and the capteine of Belquerke, which should attach the earle of Flanders by his bodie, and summon him to yéeld himselfe prisoner at Paris, within the space of fifteene daies next insuing.