Compare 1577 edition: 1 Before Christmasse the king returned into Eng|land, but the king of Scots remained all the winter in saint Iohns towne with a sober companie. When the king had setled the state of Scotland vnder the gouernement of the Balioll,A statute or|deined by [...] Scots in [...]|uour of [...] of England. those Scotishmen which tooke part with the Balioll, ordeined as it were in re|compense of king Edwards friendship a statute, whereby they bound themselues to the said king Ed|ward and his heires kings of England, that they should aid and assist him against all other princes: and whensoeuer it chanced that either he or any king of England being rightfull inheritor, had any wars against any prince, either within the land or without, the Scotishmen of their owne proper costs and ex|penses should find thrée hundred horssemen, & a thou|sand footmen well and sufficientlie arraied for the warre, the which thirtéene hundred men the Scots should wage for a whole yeare: & if the king of Eng|land ended not his warres within the yeare, then he to giue wages to the said number of thirteene hun|dred Scots, as he dooth to other of his souldiers and men of warre. There be that write, that the king of England should not onlie fortifie saint Iohns towne about this time, as before is mentioned, Polydor. but also saint Andrews, Cowper, Aberdine, Dunfermeling, with certeine other castels,Townes [...] by [...] Edwards [...] Scotland leauing garisons of men in the same. But for so much as ye may read sufficientlie of those troubles, in Scotland; and of the returne of king Dauid foorth of France, and how his realme was recouered out of the Baliols hands in the Sco|tish chronicles: we néed not here to make anie long discourse thereof.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The quéene was deliuered of hir second sonne at Hatfield, Th. [...] Croxden. who was therfore named William of Hat|field, who liued but a short time,13 [...] departing this world when he was but yoong. The king being returned home out of Scotland,The king [...] dieth toge|ther [...] mainte [...] [...] warres. sought by all waies possible how to recouer monie, both to supplie his charges for the Scotish wars, and also to furnish the other wars which he meant to take in hand against the French king: he got so much into his hands (as it is reported by writers) that it was verie scant and hard to come by throughout the whole realme: by reason of which EEBO page image 353 scarsitie and want of monie, or vpon some other ne|cessarie cause,Great [...]eap|nesse of w [...]rs end scarsitie of monie. vittels, and other chaffer and merchan|dize were excéeding cheape: for at London a quar|ter of wheat was sold for two shillings, a fat oxe for [...] shillings eight pence, a fat shéepe for six pence or eight pence, halfe a doozen of pigeons for one penie, a fat goose for two pence, a pig for one penie, and so all other v [...]tels after the like rate.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This yeare was the warre proclamed betwixt England and France, cheefelie by the procurement of the lord Robert Dartois, a Frenchman, as then banished out of France, vpon occasion of a claime by him made vnto the earldome of Artois. This lord Robert after he was banished France, fled ouer vn|to king Edward, who gladlie receiued him and made him earle of Richmond. ¶ All the goods of the Italians were by the kings commandement this yeare confiscate to his vse, and so likewise were the goods of the moonks of the Cluniake and Cisterce|aur orders. ¶ This yeare also a comet or blasing|starre appeared, with long and terrible streames pas|sing from it. In the eleauenth yeare of his reigne, the king held a parlement at Westminster,1338 Anno Reg. 11. about the time of Lent, during the which, of the earledome of Cornewall he made a duchie, Thom. Wals. Ran. Higd. Polydor. Fabian. and gaue it vnto his eldest sonne Edward, that was then earle of Che|ster, whom also (as some write) he created at the same time prince of Wales.