The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 316)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the prince was departed from the campe, his father king Edward was taken with sore sicke|nesse, yet he remooued from Carleill, where the same sicknesse first tooke him, vnto Burrough vpon Sand, and there the daie after being the seuenth daie of Iu|lie,

The death of K. Edward the first.

He is buried at Westmin|ster.

he ended his life, after he had reigned 34 yeares, six moneths and one and twentie daies. He liued 68 yeares and twentie daies. His bodie was conueied to London, and in the church of Westminster lieth buried.His issue. He had issue by his first wife queene Elianor, foure sons, Iohn, Henrie, Alfonse, & Edward which succeeded him, the other died long before their father. Also fiue daughters; Elianor, Ione, Margaret, and Elizabeth, were bestowed in marriage as before in this booke is expressed: the fift named Marie became a nunne. By his second wife quéene Margaret, he had two sonnes, Thomas of Brotherton, and Ed|mund of Woodstoke, with one daughter named Margaret after hir mother.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 He was tall of stature, some what blacke of colour, strong of bodie, and leane, auoiding grosenesse,His stature and forme [...] bodie. with continuall exercise, of comelie fauour, and iettie eies, the which when he waxed angrie, would suddenlie be|come reddish, and seeme as though they sparkled with fire. The haire of his head was blacke and curled,His qualitie of mind. he continued for the most part in good health of bo|die, and was of a stout stomach, which neuer failed him in time of aduersitie. Moreouer, he had an ex|cellent good wit, for to whatsoeuer he applied his stu|die, he easilie atteined to the vnderstanding thereof: wise he was and vertuous, an earnest enimie of the high and presumptuous insolencie of préests, the which he iudged to procéed chéeflie of too much wealth and riches: and therefore,He misliked the pride of prelats. he deuised to establish the statute of Mortmaine, to be a bridle to their inordi|nate lusts and riotous excesse. He built the abbeie of the vale roiall in Cheshire, he was a constant fréend, but if he once tooke displeasure or hatred against any person, he would not easilie receiue him into fauour againe: whilest he had any vacant time from weigh|tie affaires, he spent lightlie the same in hunting.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Towards the maintenance of his warres and o|ther charges, besides the subsidies which he leuied of his people, and other reuenues comming to his cof|fers, he had great helpe,Siluer [...] by reason of the siluer mines which in his daies were found in Deuonshire, and occupied greatlie to his profit, as in the records re|maining in the excheker, concerning the accompts and allowances about the same it dooth and may ap|peare. For in the accompts of master William de Wimondham, it is recorded, that betwixt the twelfth daie of August, and the last of October,The same Wimondha [...] also receiue [...] 82 pounds [...] 26 founder [...] lead, out of [...] which [...] by his [...]|compts. in the 22 yeare of this king Edwards reigne, there was tried and fined out at Martinestowe in Deuonshire by times, so much of fined siluer as amounted to the summe of 370 pounds weight, which being brought to London, was there refined by certeine finers, that plate might be forged thereof, for the ladie Elianor duches of Bar, and daughter to the said king, married in the yeare then last past to the duke of Bar as be|fore ye haue heard.