Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the eight and twentith yeare of his reigne, in the Christmasse season king Edward set foorth a pro|clamation, forbidding and prohibiting all forren coins to be receiued and paid as sterling monie with|in his dominion, Abington. A proclamati|on for monie. commanding by the same procla|mation, that two péeces of them should go for one sterling, vntill the feast of Easter. There were di|uerse monies in those daies currant within this realme, as pollards, crocards, staldings, eagles, leonines, sléepings, and all these were white mo|nies, artificiallie made of siluer, copper, and sulphur, so that it was an ill time for base monies, & much chop|ping and changing was vsed in buieng and selling of things.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At Easter following the king vtterlie forbad that any of those monies should be currant at all,Forren mo|nies forbid|den to go as currant. and held his exchange in sundrie places, and to be rid of them, men gaue fiue or six of them for one sterling, not caring for them, bicause of their basenesse, and yet within a yeare after that men had learned the skill by proofe how to trie mettall with melted lead in the fire, they found that two péeces of those base monies were in value worth one sterling, and many became rich by the exchange, which had bought good store of them, when they were so smallie esteemed: but the king caused inquirie to be made of them that vsed such exchange without his licence, and put them to their fines.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 At a parlement holden at London in Lent this yeare, the king renewed the confirmation of the charters, and made certeine new statutes concer|ning fines and goale deliueries, verie profitable to the common-wealth. About the feast of saint Iohn Baptist, Abington. The king go|eth with an armie into Scotland. king Edward went with an armie into Scotland, and there granted a truce to the Scots that inhabited the mounteine countries to indure for eleuen moneths, that is to saie, till Whitsuntide next insuing. As the king was vpon his iournie fore|wards in the north parts, his late married wife queene Margaret was deliuered of hir first sonne at Brotherton,Thomas of Brotherton borne the first of Iune. a place in Yorkeshire not farre from Pontfret; he was named Thomas, and tooke the sur|name of Brotherton, of the place where he was borne.