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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Amongst other treatises which he compiled, be|ing manie, and namelie of naturall philosophie, he wrote a commentarie of the ethikes of Aristotle, and dedicated the same vnto the said bishop, a worke which hath beene highlie esteemed, not onelie in the Uniuersities of Italie, Germanie and France, but also here in our Uniuersities of England. To con|clude, such was the same of this doctor Burlie, that when the ladie Philip, daughter to the earle of Hei|nault should come ouer into England to be married to king Edward, this doctor Burlie was reteined by hir, and appointed to be hir almoner, and so conti|nued in great estimation, in so much that after Ed|ward prince of Wales, eldest sonne to king Edward commonlie called the blacke prince, was borne, and able to learne his booke, the said Burlie among o|ther was commanded to be one of his instructors.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 By reason hereof, sir Simon Burlie, of whom I haue made some mention heretofore in this kings life, and more intend to speake, as occasion serueth in the next king, being sonne to sir Iohn Burlie, néere kinsman to the said doctor Burlie, was admitted a|mong other yoong gentlemen, to be schoolefelow with the said prince, by occasion whereof he grew in such credit and fauour with the said prince, that after|wards when his son Richard of Burdeaux, that suc|céeded king Edward his father, was borne, the said prince for speciall trust and confidence which he had in the said sir Simon Burlie, committed the gouer|nance & education of his son the said Richard vnto him, whereby he was euer after highlie in fauour with the said Richard, and no lesse aduanced by him, when he came to inioy the crowne of this realme.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now to other learned men of that age. Iohn Barwike a frier Minor, and reader to his fellowes of that order in Oxford; William Notingham, Ro|ger Glacton, borne in Huntingtonshire, an Augustin frier; Iohn Polestéed borne in Suffolke, a Carme|lite frier in Ipswich or Gippeswich as they write it; Walter Kingham a frier also of the order of those Dominikes, which they called pied friers; Roger of Chester a moonke of that citie and an historiogra|pher; Thomas de Hales a frier Minor, Robert Eli|phat a graie frier, Geffrie Grandfield an Augustine or blacke frier, Hugh Wirlie a Carmelite frier of Norwich, William Eincourt a blacke frier of Bo|ston, Hugh Ditton borne in Cambridgeshire a frier preacher, Adam Carthusianus a doctor of diuinitie, Iohn Luttrell an excellent philosopher and well seene in the mathematicals, Walter Cotton and Thomas Eckleston both graie friers, Iohn Folsham a Car|melite frier in Norwich, Benet of Northfolke, Wil|liam Southhampton so called of the towne where he was borne, a blacke frier.

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