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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the 23 yeare of his reigne, there was fined at the place aforsaid 521 pounds & ten shillings weight of siluer by times,Betwixt th [...] 10 day of I [...]lie, and the [...] day of Oct [...]|ber the same yeare. which was also brought to Lon|don. In the 24 yeare of his reigne, there were taken vp 337 miners, within the wapentake of the Peake in Darbishire, and brought into Deuonshire, to worke there in those siluer mines, as appeareth by the allowance demanded by the said master William de Wimondham in his roll of accounts, deliuered that yeare into the excheker: and there was brought from thence to London the same yeare of siluer fined and cast in wedges 700 foure pounds, thrée shillings, one penie weight. In the 25 yeare of his reigne, there were three hundred and fourtie eight miners brought againe out of the Peake into Deuonshine, and out of Wales there were brought also 25 miners, which all were occupied about those siluer mines, beside o|thers of the selfe countrie of Deuonshire, and other places. Also Wil. de Aulton clearke, kéeper of the kings mines in Deuonshire and Cornewall, was accomptant of the issues and profits of the kings mines there, from the fourth of March, Anno 26 of his reigne, till the eightéenth of Aprill, Anno 27, and EEBO page image 317 yéelded vp his account, both of the siluer and lead.