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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Record. Tur. On saint Kenelmes daie being fridaie, and the 17 of Iulie, master Humfrie Carleton professor of diuinitie, and Iohn Carleton the yoonger, doctor of the lawes, on the behalfe of the Uniuersitie of Ox|ford, and Iohn saint Frideswide maior, Iohn Bere|ford, and Iohn Norton, burgesses of the said towne of Oxford, on the behalfe of the communaltie of the same towne, came before the kings councell at Westminster in the councell chamber there, néere to the excheker, where the allegations on both parties being heard, and vpon request made, that it might please his maiesties councell, acording to the submis|sions by both parties made vnto the king and to his councell, to take order in the matter in controuersie betwixt them, concerning the late tumult and busi|nesse which had chanced in the said towne, by the dis|order of the communaltie of the same, in breaking downe, and burning vp of houses, in taking awaie the bookes and other goods of the said masters and scholers, & in committing other transgressions. The councell hauing consideration thereof, to auoid the decaie that might haue insued to the said towne, made this end betwixt them, that the said towne (Iohn Bereford,The end and award made of the quarrell betwixt the Uniuersitie and townes|men of Ox|ford. being in the kings prison, and Ro|bert Lardiner onelie excepted) should be bound to paie vnto the said masters and scholers, damnified in the said tumult and businesse, for amends, and refor|mation of iniuries and losses susteined (death and maime excepted) two hundred and fiftie pounds, beside the goods taken and borne awaie, to be resto|red againe, and this monie to be paid to the said chancellor, masters and scholers, on that side the mon|daie next before the feast of saint Iames, or else suffi|cient suerties put in for the paiment thereof, at cer|teine termes, as the parties should agrée vpon: and in respect thereof, the said Iohn Bereford, and Iohn Norton, shall be releassed out of prison of the Mar|shalsea, at the baile of the said maior, and of Robert de Menkes, and Iohn Dimmoks, till the next sessi|ons of gaole deliuerie, with condition, that the said summes of monie be paid, or suerties put in for the paiment thereof, as before is said, or else the bodies of the said Iohn Bereford, & Iohn de Norton, shall be returned to the said prison, within thrée daies after the feast of Peter ad Vincula, there to remaine in manner as before they did.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 It was also ordeined by the councell, with the as|sent of the said Humfrie and Iohn Carleton, that all and euerie manner of persons of the said towne of Oxford, and the suburbes of the same, indited and ar|reigned of the fellonies and transgressions before mentioned, that should yeeld themselues to the kings prison to be tried by law, and also all other that were at that present in prison, which the said Humfrie and Iohn de Carleton should name (Iohn de Bereford and Robert Lardiner excepted) might be let to baile, vpon sufficient suerties, that should vndertake for them, bodies for bodies, to appeare at the next sessi|ons of gaole deliuerie, there to be tried, according to the order of law. And further it was ordered, that all such goods and cattels as were taken and carried awaie from the said masters and scholers in the said tumult and businesse, by the men of the said towne and suburbes, in whose hands, and in what places soe|uer within the said towne and suburbes, by inquisiti|ons, informations, or other meanes, they should or might be found, should be deliuered to the said chan|cellor, and procurators of the said Uniuersitie, to be by them restore [...] vnto those persons, to whome they belonged This was the effect of the order taken at that day and place, before the [...]eu [...]r [...]nd fathers, Iohn archbishop of Yorke primat and chancellor of Eng|land, William bishop of Winchester lord treasuror, Thomas de Br [...]mbre lord keeper of the priuie seale, and Dauid de Wollore master of the rolles, Henrie de Ingelbie [...]learke, and other of the kings councell then and there present.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The prince of Wales (as ye haue heard) being ap|pointed to passe ouer into Gascoigne, Tho. Wals [...]. The prince [...] Wales goeth ouer into Gasco [...]gne set forward from London the last daie of Iune, and comming to Plimmouth, where his nauie was appointed to be made readie, he staied there, for want of conuenient wind and weather a long time after. Finallie, ha|uing with him the earles of Warwike, Suffolke, Salisburie & Oxford, also the lord Iohn Chan [...]ls, sir Robert Knols, sir Franke de Hall, the lord Iames Audelie, with diuerse other of the nobilitie, and of men of armes and archers [...] g [...]eat number then in parlement to him assigned, [...]e [...]st set from Plim|mouth on the daie of the Natiuitie of one ladie. They were in all thrée hundred saile, and finding the wind prosperous, they passed ouer into Gascoigne, where of th [...] Gascoignes they were ioifullie receiued. In August, the Englishmen that were in Britaine, warring against the Frenchmen, that tooke part with the lord Charl [...]s de Blois, slue manie of them, & tooke the lord of Beaumanor, the vicount of Roan, and diuerse other. ¶ This yeare also, about Michael|masse, the king hauing [...] an armie to be EEBO page image 383 readie at Sandwich, passed ouer to Calis with the same. There went ouer with him his two sonnes, Li|onell of Antwerp earle of Ulster, and Iohn of Gant earle of Richmond. He found at Calis a thousand men of armes that came to serue him for wages, foorth of Flanders, Brabant, and Almaigne, so that he had about thrée thousand men of armes, and two thousand archers on horsebacke, beside archers on foot a great number. The citie of London had sent to him fiue hundred men of armes,The citie of London. and fiue hundred archers all in one sute or liuerie, at their owne costs and charges. On the second of Nouember, he set from Calis, marching foorth towards saint Omers, wa|sting the countrie by the waie as he passed.

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