Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king being more grieuouslie vexed with sick|nesse from daie to daie, either increasing by the course therof, or renewed by some new surfet, finallie this yeare departed out of this transitorie life at his manour of Shéene, Tho. Walsi. The deceasse of K. Edward the third. now called Richmond, the 21 daie of Iune, in the yeare of our Lord 1377, after he had liued 65 yeares, & reigned fiftie yeares, foure moneths, & 28 daies. His corpse was conueied from Sheene by his foure sonnes, Fabian, pag. 262, 263. namelie Lionell duke of Clarence, Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster, Ed|mund of Langlie duke of Yorke, and Thomas of Woodstoke earle of Cambridge, with other nobles of the realme, and solemnelie interred within West|minster church, with this epitaph in his memoriall:
He had issue by his wife quéene Philip 7 sonnes, Ed|ward prince of Wales,His issue. William of Hatfield that di|ed yoong, Lionell duke of Clarence, Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster, Edmund of Langlie earle of Cambridge & after created duke of Yorke, Thomas of Woodstoke erle of Buckingham after made duke of Glocester, and an other William which died like|wise yoong. He had also thrée daughters, Marie that was maried to Iohn of Mountford duke of Bri|taine, Isabell wedded to the lord Coucie earle of Bedford, and Margaret coupled in mariage with the earle of Penbroke.Hîc decus Anglorum, flos regum praeteritorum,Forma futurorum, rex clemens, pax populorum,Tertius Edwardus, regni complens iubileum,Inuictus pardus, pollens bellis Machabeum.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 His praise.This king, besides other his gifts of nature, was aided greatlie by his seemelie personage. He had a prouident wit, sharpe to conceiue and vnderstand: he was courteous and gentle, dooing all things sage|lie and with good consideration, a man of great tem|perance and sobrietie. Those he chiefelie fauoured and aduanced to honour, and roomes of high dignitie, which excelled in honest conuersation, modestie, and innocencie of life, of bodie well made, of a conueni|ent stature, as neither of the highest nor lowest sort: of face faire and manlike, eies bright and shining,His pro [...]|tion of [...] and in age bald, but so as it was rather a séemelinesse to those his ancient yeares than any disfiguring fo his visage; in knowledge of martiall affaires verie skilfull, as the enterprises and worthie acts by him at|chiued doo sufficientlie witnesse.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 In what estimation he was had among strangers it may appeare, in that he was not onelie made vi|car of the empire by the emperour Lewes of Ba| [...]iere, but also after the decease of the same empe|rour, diuerse of the electours, as Lewes marques of Brandenbourgh, Robert or Rupert count Palatine of the Rhene, and the yoong duke of Saxonie, with Henrie archbishop of Mentz, elected him to succéed in place of the said emperour Lewes. Neuerthe|lesse, he giuing them hartie thanks for the honour which they did vnto him herein, refused to take the charge vpon him, alledging that he could not haue time to supplie the roome, by reason of the warres that he had in France, to recouer his right which he had to that realme.