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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Sir Simon de Bereford knight that had béene one of the kings iustices,Sir Simon Bereford ex|ecuted. was drawne also and hang|ed at London, vpon S. Lucies daie. In this parle|ment holden at Westminster, the king tooke into his hand, by aduise of the states there assembled, all the possessions, lands and reuenues that belonged to the quéene his mother, she hauing assigned to hir a thousand pounds by yeare,Some bookes haue 3 thou|sand pounds. for the maintenance of hir estate, being appointed to remaine in a certeine place, and not to go elsewhere abroad: yet the king to comfort hir, would lightlie euerie yeare once come to visit hir. ¶After that the erle of March was execu|ted (as yée haue heard) diuerse noble men that were departed the realme, bicause they could not abide the pride and presumption of the said earle, now retur|ned: as the sonne and heire of the earle of Arundell, Ad. Merem. the lord Thomas Wake, the L. Henrie Beaumont, sir Thomas de Rosselin, sir Foulke fitz Warren, sir Griffin de la Poole, and diuerse other.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the fift yeare of K. Edwards reigne,1331 Anno. Reg. 5. Edward Balioll came foorth of France into England, and ob|teined such fauour through the assistance of the lord Henrie Beaumont,Edward Ba|lioll commeth into England the lord Dauid of Strabogie earle of Athole, the lord Geffrey de Mowbraie, the lord Walter Cumin, and others, that king Edward granted him licence to make his prouision in Eng|land to passe into Scotland, with an armie of men to attempt the recouerie of his right to the crowne of Scotland, with condition that if he recouered it, he should acknowledge to hold it of the king of Eng|land as superiour lord of Scotland. The comming a|waie of Edward Balioll out of France is diuerslie reported by writers: some saie that he was aided by the French king, whose sister he had married: Caxton. and o|ther saie, that he being in prison in France, for the escape of an Englishman,Iohn Bar|nabie. one Iohn Barnabie es|quier, which had slaine a Frenchman by chance of quarelling in the towne of Dampierre, where the same Barnabie dwelled with the said Edward Ba|lioll,The lord Beaumont. so it came to passe that the lord Henrie Beau|mont hauing occasion of businesse with the French king, that fauoured him well, came ouer to France, and there vnderstanding of Baliols imprisonment, procured his deliuerance, and brought him ouer into England, and caused him to remaine in secret wise at the manor of Sandhall vpon Ouse in Yorkeshire with the ladie Uesci [...], till he had purchased the kings grant for him to make his prouision of men of war and ships within the English dominions.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the sixt yeare of king Edwards reigne,1332 Anno Reg. 6. Reig|nold earle of Gelderland married the ladie Elianor sister to this king Edward the third, Croxden. The earle of Gelderland. who gaue vnto the said earle with hir for hir portion, fifteene thou|sand pounds sterling. ¶ Isabell the kings daughter was borne also this yeare at Woodstoke. ¶ After that Edward Balioll had prepared and made readie his purueiances for his iournie, and that his men of warre were assembled and come togither, being in all not past fiue hundred men of armes, and about two thousand archers, and other footmen, he tooke the sea at Rauenspurgh in Yorkeshire, and from thence directing his course northward, he arriued at length in Scotland, where he atchiuing great victories (as in the Scotish chronicle yée may read more at large) was finallie crowned king of that realme.Edward Ba|lioll crowned k. of Scotlãd.

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