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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 For the loue that the duke had to these his chil|dren, he married their mother the said Katharine Swinford, being now a widow, whereof men mar|uelled much, considering hir meane estate was farre vnmeet to match with his highnesse, and nothing comparable in honor to his other two former wiues. And indeed, the great ladies of England, as the du|ches of Glocester, the countesses of Derbie, Arundell and others, descended of the blood roiall, greatlie dis|deined, that she should be matched with the duke of of Lancaster, and by that means be accompted se|cond person in the realme, and preferred in roome be|fore them, and therefore they said, that they would not come in anie place where she should be present, for it should be a shame to them that a woman of so base birth, and concubine to the duke in his other wiues daies, should go and haue place before them. The duke of Glocester also, being a man of an high mind and stout stomach, misliked his brothers matching so meanlie, but the duke of Yorke bare it well inough, and verelie, the ladie hir selfe was a wo|man of such bringing vp, and honorable demeanor, that enuie could not in the end but giue place to well deseruing.Wickleuists increase. About this season, the doctrine of of Iohn Wickliffe still mightilie spred abroad héere in England. ¶The schisme also still continued in the church, betwixt the two factions of cardinals French and Romane for one of their popes could no sooner be dead, but that they ordeined an other in his place.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 In this eighteenth yeare also was a woonderfull tempest of wind in the months of Iulie and August, and also most speciallie in September, by violence whereof, in sundrie places of this realme, great and woonderfull hurt was doone, both in churches and houses. ¶The ambassadors that had béene latelie in France, about the treatie of the marriage (as before yée haue heard) went thither againe, and so after that the two kings by sending to and fro were growne to certeine points and couenants of agreement,

The earle marshall affi|eth ye French kings daugh|ter, in ye name of king Ri|chard.

Anno Reg. 20. A truce for 30 yeares be|twéene Eng|land and France.

Tho. Walsin.

the earle marshall, by letters of procuration, married the ladie Isabell, in name of king Richard, so that from thencefoorth she was called quéene of England. Amongst other couenants and articles of this mar|riage, there was a truce accorded, to indure betwixt the two realms of England and France, for tearme of thirtie yeares. The pope wrote to king Richard, beseeching him to assist the prelats against the Lol|lards (as they tearmed them) whom he pronounced to be traitors, both to the church and kingdome, and therefore he besought him to take order for the pu|nishment of them, whom the prelats should denounce to be heretikes.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The popes letters to K. Rich. against y^ [...] WickleuistsAt the same time, he sent a bull reuocatorie con|cerning religious men, that had either at his hands or at the hands of his legats or nuncios purchased to be his chapleins, and accompting themselues there|by exempt from their order; so that now they were by this reuocatorie bull, appointed to returne to their order, and to obserue all rules thereto belonging. This liked the friers well, namelie the minors, that sought by all means they might deuise, how to bring their brethren home againe, which by such exemptions in being the popes chapleins, were segregated & di|uided from the residue of their fraternitie or brother|hood. The king in this twentith yeare of his reigne, went ouer to Calis with his vncles the dukes of Yorke and Glocester,K. Richard goeth ouer to Calis. and a great manie of other lords and ladies of honour, and thither came to him the duke of Burgognie, and so they communed of [...]he peace. There was no enimie to the conclusion thereof but the duke of Glocester, who shewed well by his words that he wished rather war than peace, in somuch as the king stood in doubt of him, least he would procure some rebellion against him by his subiects, whome he knew not to fauour greatlie this new aliance with France.

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