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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Here the dukes and other fell in counsell, and ma|nie things were proponed. Some would that they shuld by force reuenge the duke of Glocesters death, other thought it méet that the earles Marshall and Huntington and certeine others, as chéefe authours of all the mischeefe should be pursued and punished for their demerites, hauing trained vp the king in vice and euill customes, euen from his youth. But the dukes (after their displeasure was somewhat asswa|ged) determined to couer the stings of their griefes for a time, and if the king would amend his maners, to forget also the iniuries past. Caxton. Fabian. Polydor. In the meane time the king laie at Eltham, and had got about him a great power (namelie of those archers, which he had sent for out of Cheshire, in whome he put a singular trust more than in any other.)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There went messengers betwixt him and the dukes, which being men of honour did their indeuour to appease both parties. The king discharged himselfe of blame for the duke of Glocesters death, conside|ring that he had gone about to breake the truce, which he had taken with France, and also stirred the peo|ple of the realme to rebellion, and further had sought the destruction and losse of his life, that was his soue|reigne lord and lawfull king. Contrarilie, the dukes affirmed,The king and the dukes re|conciled. that their brother was wrongfullie put to death, hauing doone nothing worthie of death. At length, by the intercession and meanes of those noble men that went to and fro betwixt them, they were ac|corded, & the king promised from thencefoorth to doo no [...]hing but by the assent of the dukes: but he kept small promise in this behalfe, as after well appeared.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Caxton. When the time came, that the parlement should be holden at Westminster, according to the tenour of the summons, the lords repaired thither, furni|shed with great retinues both of armed men and ar|chers, as the earle of Derbie, the earle Marshall, the earle of Rutland, the lord Spenser, the earle of Nor|thumberland, with his sonne the lord Henrie Persie, and the lord Thomas Persie the said earles brother, also the lord Scroope treasuror of England, & diuerse other. All the which earles and lords brought with them a great & strong power, euerie of them in their best araie, as it were to strengthen the king against his enimies. The dukes of Lancaster and Yorke were likewise there, giuing their attendance on the king with like furniture of men of armes & archers. There was not halfe lodging sufficient within the citie & suburbes of London for such cõpanies of men as the lords brought with them to this parlement,The great parlement. called the great parlement: in somu [...]h that they were constreined to lie in villages abroad ten or twelue miles on ech side the citie.

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