Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Also the duke of Normandie came from Bul|longne to Calis, to visit his father,The duke [...] Normandie. and to sée the king of England, in which meane time two of king Ed|wards sonnes were at Bullongne. Finallie, when these two kings had finished all matters in so good order and forme that the same could not be amended nor corrected, and that the French king had deliuered his hostages to the king of England, that is to saie, six dukes, beside earles, lords, and other honorable personages, in all to the number of eight and thirtie: on the morrow after the taking of their oths,The [...] of the Fre [...] hostages. that is to saie on the fiue and twentith daie of October, be|ing sundaie, the French king was freelie deliuered, and the same daie before noone he departed from Ca|lis, and rode to Bullongne. The king of England brought him a mile foreward on his waie, and then tooke leaue of him in most louing maner. The prince EEBO page image 395 attended him to Bullongne, where both he and the duke of Normandie with other were eftsoons sworne to hold and mainteine the foresaid peace without all fraud or colourable deceit: and this doone, the prince returned to Calis. Thus was the French king set at libertie,The French king set at libertie. after he had beene prisoner here in Eng|land the space of foure yeares, and as much as from the nineteenth daie of September, vnto the fiue and twentith of October. When the king of England had finished his businesse at Calis, according to his mind, he returned into England, and came to Lon|don the ninth daie of Nouember.

¶Thus haue yée hard the originall begining, the pro|cesse, and issue of sundrie conflicts and battels, and speciallie of two, one of Iohn the French king vn|luckilie attempted against England; the other of Dauid the Scotish king as vnfortunatlie ended. For both kings were subdued in fight, vanquished, and taken prisoners; with a great number of their noblemen, whereas they were in hope to haue gone awaie with the conquest, and to haue had renowme for their reward. Of which ouerthrow giuen to both these kings, with the clemencie of king Edward (in whose hands though their liues laie to be disposed as he list, yet he was so far from violating the same, that he shewed himselfe a woonderfull fauourer of their estates, and in fine not onelie put them to their reasonable ransoms, but restored them to their roial|ties, from the which their sinister lot had deposed them) Christopher Okland hath left this remembred:

Plantageneta duos reges iam illustris habebat

In Angl. prel. sub Edwardo. 3. Captiuos tenuit comites custodia mitis

Multos ambabus claro regionibus ortos

Sanguine, quos saeuo bello cepere Britanni.

Attamen Eduardi viguit clementia regis

Tanta, & tanta animo virtus innata sedebat,

Vt pretio & pacto dimitteret aere redemptos

In patriam ad propriae consanguinitatis amicos.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this foure and thirtith yeare of king Edward, men and cattell were destroied in diuerse places of this realme,Strange woonders. by lightening and tempest; also houses were set on fier and burnt, and manie strange and woonderfull sights seene. ¶The same yeare Edward prince of Wales married the countesse of Kent, which before was wife vnto the lord Thomas Hol|land: and before that, she was also wife vnto the erle of Salisburie, and diuorsed from him, and wedded to the same lord Holland. She was daughter vnto Ed|mund earle of Kent, brother to king Edward the se|cond, that was beheaded in the beginning of this kings reigne, as before yée haue heard. And bicause the prince and shee were within degrees of consan|guinitie forbidden to marrie, a dispensation was gotten from the pope to remooue that let. In this yeare also was a great death of people (namelie of men,A great death. for women were not so much subiect thereto.) This was called the second mortalitie, bicause it was the second that fell in this kings daies.