Compare 1577 edition: 1 After that she had refreshed hir people a little space at saint Edmundsburie, she marched foorth to seeke the aduersaries of hir and of the realme, as she bruted it; but they still kéeping themselues néere to the kings person, that vnder the shadow of the wings of his protection they might remaine in more safegard, durst not depart from his presence. At the time of the queenes landing he was at London, and being sore amazed with the newes, he required aid of the Londoners.The answer of the Lon|doners to the king. They answered, that they would doo all the honour they might vnto the king, the queene, and to their sonne the lawfull heire of the land: but as for strangers & traitors to the realme, they would kéepe them out of their gates, and resist them with all their forces: but to go foorth of the citie further than that they might returne before sunne-setting, they refused, pretending certeine liberties in that behalfe to them granted in times past, as they alledged.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The king not greatlie liking of this answer, forti|fied the tower,The king for|saketh Lon|don, and goeth towards the marches of Wales. and leauing within it his yoonger son Iohn of Eltham, and the wife of the lord chamber|leine Hugh Spenser the yoonger that was his neece, he departed towards the marches of Wales, there to raise an armie against the queene. Before his depar|ture from London,A proclama|tion set forth by the king. he set foorth a proclamation, that euerie man vnder paine of forfeiting of life & goods, should resist them that were thus landed, assaile, and kill them, the quéene, his sonne Edward, and his bro|ther the earle of Kent onelie excepted; and whosoeuer could bring the head or dead corps of the lord Morti|mer of Wigmore, should haue for his labour a thou|sand marks.The quéenes proclamation. The queenes proclamations on the other part willed all men to hope for peace, the Spensers publike enimies of the realme, and the lord chancellor Robert Baldocke, with their assistants onlie excep|ted, through whose meanes the present trouble was happened to the realme. And it was forbidden, that no man should take ought from any person, and who so euer could bring to the quéene the head of Hugh Spenser the yoonger, should haue two thousand pounds of the queenes gift.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The bishop of Excester le [...]t in charge with the citie of London.The king at his departure from London, left mai|ster Walter Stapleton the bishop of Excester be|hind him, to haue the rule of the citie of London. Then shortlie after, the quéene with hir son, making towards London, wrote a letter to the maior, and the citizens, requiring to haue assistance for the putting downe of the Spensers, not onelie knowne enimies of theirs, but also common enimies to all the realme of England. To this letter no answer at the first was made, Caxton. wherefore an other was sent, dated at Baldocke the sixt daie of October, vnder the names of Isabell by the grace of God queene of England, ladie of Ireland, and countesse of Pontieu, and of Ed|ward eldest sonne to the king of England, duke of Guien, earle of Chester, of Pontieu and of Muttrell. This letter being directed to the maior and commu|naltie of London, conteining in effect, that the cause of their landing and entring into the realme at that time, was onelie for the honor of the king and wealth of the realme, meaning hurt to no maner of person, but to the Spensers, was fastened vpon the crosse in Cheape, then called the new crosse in Cheape, on the night before the ninth daie of October. Diuerse co|pies of the same letter were set vp, and fastened vpon windowes and doores in other places of the citie, and one of the same copies was tacked vpon the lord ma|iors gates.