Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Herevpon the councell brake vp, and Iaques Ar|teueld tarieng with the king a certeine space, after the other were departed, promised him to persuade the countrie well inough to his purpose, and suerlie, he had a great gift of eloquence, and had thereby in|duced the countrie wonderfullie, to consent to manie things, as well in fauour of king Edward, as to his owne aduancement: but this suit which he went now about to bring to passe, was so odious vnto all the Flemings, that in no wise they thought it reason to consent vnto the disheriting of the earle. At length, when Iaques Arteueld should returne vnto Gant, Ia. Meir. Welshmen appointed to Iaques Ar|teueld for a gard against Gerard De|nise. king Edward appointed fiue hundred Welshmen to attend him as a gard, for the preseruation of his per|son, bicause he said, that one Gerard Denise deane of the weauers, an vnquiet man, maliciouslie pur|posed his destruction.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Capteins of these Welshmen were Iohn Ma|treuers, and William Sturine or Sturrie, and so with this crue of souldiers Arteueld returned vnto Gant, and earnestlie went in hand with his suit in king Edwards behalfe, that either the earle should doo his homage to the king of England to whome it was due; or else to forfeit his earledome. Then the foresaid Gerard, as well of his owne mind, as pro|cured thereto by the authoritie of earle Lewes, stir|red the whole citie against the said Arteueld,Iacob Arte|uelds house beset. and ga|thering a great power vnto him, came and beset Ar|teuelds house round about vpon each side, the furie of the people being wonderfullie bent against him, cri|eng;

Kill him, Kill him that hath robbed the tresurie of the countrie, and now goeth about to disherit our noble earle.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Iaques van Arteueld perceiuing in what danger he was, came vnto a window, and spake to that in|raged multitude, in hope with faire and courteous words to appease them, but it could not be: whervpon he sought to haue fled out of his house, but the same was broken vp, and so manie entred vpon him, that he was found out, Froissard. Ia. Meir. and slaine by one Thomas Denise (as some write.) But other affirme, that on a sundaie in the after noone, being the 17 of Iulie, a cob|ler, whose father this Iaques van Arteueld had some|time slaine, followed him, as he was fléeing into a stable where his horsses stood, & there with an ax cloue his head asunder, so that he fell downe starke dead on the ground.Iacob van Arteueld slaine. And this was the end of the foresaid Iaques van Arteueld, who by his wisedome and poli|cie had obteined the whole gouernment of all Flan|ders. This wofull end was allotted vnto him by destinie, whose decrée nothing is able by any shift to auoid, as is notablie said of the poet in this distichon;

M. Pal. in scor.Nil extra fatum est, metitúrque omnia summi

Mens regis, cuius sine numine fit nihil vsquam.