Compare 1577 edition: 1 When these iudgements were once read, the king called before him both the parties, and made them to sweare that the one should neuer come in place where the other was, willingli [...]; nor kéepe any com|panie to [...]ither in any forren region; which oth they both receiued humblie, and so went their waies. The duke of Norfolke departed sorowfullie out of the relme into Almanie, and at the last came to Uenice, where he for thought and melancholie deceassed: for he was in hope (as writers record) that he should haue béene borne out in the matter by the king, which when it fell out otherwise, it greeued him not a little. The duke of Hereford tooke his leaue of the king at Eltham, who there released foure yeares of his ba|nishment: so he tooke his iornie ouer into Calis, and from thence went into France, where he remained. ¶A woonder it was to sée what number of people ran after him in euerie towne and stréet where he came, before he tooke the sea,The duke of Hereford be|loued of the people. lamenting and bewailing his departure, as who would saie, that when he departed, the onelie shield, defense and comfort of the common|wealth was vaded and gone.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At his comming into France, king Charles hea|ring the cause of his banishment (which he esteemed to be verie light) receiued him gentlie,The duke of Hereford is honorablie in|terteined with the French king. and him hono|rablie interteined, in so much that he had by fauour obteined in mariage the onelie daughter of the duke of Berrie, vncle to the French king, if king Richard had not béene a let in that matter, who being thereof certified, sent the earle of Salisburie with all speed into France, both to surmize by vntrue suggestion, Froissard. heinous offenses against him, and also to require the French king that in no wise he would suffer his cou|sine to be matched in mariage with him that was so manifest an offendor. This was a pestilent kind of proceeding against that nobleman then being in a forren countrie, hauing béne so honorablie receiued as he was at his entrance into France, and vpon view and good liking of his behauiour there, so for|ward in mariage with a ladie of noble linage. So sharpe, so seuere, & so heinous an accusation, brought to a strange king from a naturall prince, against his subiect, after punishment inflicted (for he was bani|shed) was inough to haue made the French king his fatall [...]o, & vpon suspicion of assaieng the like treche|rie against him, to haue throwne him out of the li|mits of his land. But what will enuie leaue vnat|tempted, where it is once setled? And how are the ma|licious tormented with egernes of reuenge against them whom they maligne, wringing themselues in the meane ti [...]e with inward pangs gnawing them at the hart? wherevnto serueth the poets allusion,

Inuidia Siculi non inuenêre tyranni

Maius tormentum.Hor. lib. [...]pist. 1.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On Newyeares day this yeare, the riuer that pas|seth betwixt Suelleston or Snelston, and Harewood, two villages not far from Bedford, sudenlie ceassed his course, so as the chanell remained drie by the space of thrée miles, that any man might enter into, and passe the same drie foot at his pleasure. This di|uision, which the water made in that place, the one part séeming as it were not to come néere to the o|ther, was iudged to signifie the reuolting of the sub|iects of this land from their naturall prince. It may be, that the water of that riuer sanke into the ground, and by some secret passage or chanell tooke EEBO page image 496 course till it came to the place where it might rise a|gaine as in other places is likewise [...].