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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now to conclude with this noble prince king Edward the first, he was sure not onelie valiant but also politike, labouring to bring this diuided Ile, in|to one entier monarchie, which he went verie neere to haue atchiued, for whereas he was fullie bent to make a conquest of Scotland, in like case as he had alreadie doone of Wales, if he had liued any longer time to haue dispatched Robert le Bruce, that onelie stood in his waie, it was verie likelie that he should haue found none other to haue raised banner against him about the quarrell or title to the claime of that realme. For as he was a right warlike prince of him selfe, so was he furnished with capteins and souldi|ers answerable to his desire, who being able to lead and command them of himselfe, had them at length obedient inough to serue him, although (as partlie yée haue heard) some of the peeres shewed themselues at times disobedient and stubborne, whom yet in the end he tamed well inough, as the earles of Hereford and Northfolke, the which in the thirtith yeare of his reigne resigned their castels and manours into his hands, as by the records of the tower it further may appeare.