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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The malice which the lords had conceiued against the earle of Cornewall still increased, the more in|deed through the high bearing of him, being now ad|uanced to honour. For being a goodlie gentleman and a stout, he would not once yéeld an inch to any of them, which worthilie procured him great enuie a|mongst the chéefest peeres of all the realme, as sir Henrie Lacie earle of Lincolne, sir Guie earle of Warwike, and sir Aimer de Ualence earle of Pen|broke, the earles of Glocester, Hereford, Arundell, and others, which vpon such wrath and displeasure as they had conceiued against him, thought it not con|uenient to suffer the same any longer, in hope that the kings mind might happilie be altered into a bet|ter purpose, being not altogither conuerted into a ve|nemous disposition, but so that it might be cured, if the corrupter thereof were once banished from him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Herevpon they assembled t [...]g [...]ther in the parle|ment time, at the new temple, Tho. Walsi. Cõntinuatiõ of N. Triuet. on saturdaie next be|fore the feast of saint Dunstan, and there ordeined that the said Péers should abiure the realme, and de|part the same on the morrow after the Natiuitie of saint Iohn Baptist at the furthest, and not to returne into the same againe at any time then after to come. To this ordinance the king (altho [...] against his will) bicause he saw himselfe and the [...]alme in dan|ger, gaue his consent, and made his letters patents to the said earles and lords, to witnesse the same.

10.1. The tenour of the kings let|ters patents.

The tenour of the kings let|ters patents.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 _NOtum vobis facimus per praesentes, quòd amodò vsque ad diem dominus Petrus de Gaueston regnum nostrum est abiuraturus & exiturus, videli|cet in crastino natiuitatis S. Iohan|nis Baptistae proximo sequenti: nos in quantum nobis est nihil faciemus, nec aliquid fieri permitte|mus, per quod exilium dicti domini Petri in aliquo poterit impediri, vel protelari, quin secundum for|mam à praelatis, comitibus, & baronibus regni no|stri, ordinatam, & per nos libero consensu confir|matam, plenarie perficiatur. In cuius rei testimo|nium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Datum apud Westm. 18 die May. Anno regni nostri primo.

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