Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus haue ye heard what writers doo report touch|ing the state of the time and doings of this king. But if I may boldlie saie what I thinke: he was a prince the most vnthankfullie vsed of his subiects, of any one of whom ye shall lightlie read. For although (tho|rough the frailtie of youth) he demeaned himselfe more dissolutelie than séemed conuenient for his roi|all estate, & made choise of such councellors as were not fauoured of the people, whereby he was the lesse fauoured himselfe: yet in n [...] kings daies were the commons in greater wealth, if they could haue per|ceiued their happie state: neither in any other time were the nobles and gentlemen more cherished, nor churchmen lesse wronged. But such was their ingra|titude towards their bountifull & louing souereigne, that those whom he had chéeflie aduanced, were rea|diest to controll him; for that they might not rule all things at their will, and remooue from him such as they misliked, and place in their roomes whom they thought good, and that rather by strong hand, than by gentle and courteous meanes, which stirred such ma|lice betwixt him and them, till at length it could not be asswaged without perill of destruction to them both.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The duke of Glocester chéefe instrument of this mischéefe, to what end he came ye haue heard. And al|though his nephue the duke of Hereford tooke vpon him to reuenge his death, yet wanted he moderation and loialtie in his dooings, for the which both he him|selfe and his lineall race were scourged afterwards, as a due punishment vnto rebellious subiects; so as deserued vengeance seemed not to staie long for his ambitious crueltie, that thought it not inough to driue king Richard to resigne his crowne and regall dignitie ouer vnto him, except he also should take from him his guiltlesse life. What vnnaturalnesse, or rather what tigerlike crueltie was this, not to be con|tent with his principalitie? not to be content with his treasure? not to be content with his depriuation? not to be content with his imprisonment? but being so neerelie knit in consanguinitie, which ought to haue moued them like lambs to haue loued each other, wooluishlie to lie in wait for the distressed creatures life, and rauenouslie to thirst after his bloud, the spil|ling whereof should haue touched his conscience so, as that death ought rather to haue béene aduentured for his safetie, than so sauagelie to haue sought his life after the losse of his roialtie

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But to let this passe to the consideration of the learned: according to our order, I will shew what writers of our English nation liued in his daies, as we find them in Iohn Bales centuries. First Hen|rie Bederie, otherwise surnamed of Burie, after the name of the towne where he is thought to haue béene borne, an Augustine frier; Simon Alcocke, Uthred Bolton a moonke of Durham, borne in the borders of Walles beyond Seuerne; William Iordan a blacke frier, Iohn Hilton a frier Minor, Iohn Clipton a Carmelite [...]ier in Notingham, Henrie Daniell a blacke frier and a good physician, Ralfe Marham, Iohn Marchele [...] a grate frier or cordelier as some call them, Thomas Broome a Carmelite frier of London, Iohn Bridlington borne in Yorkeshire, William Tho [...]ne an Augustine frier of Canturbu|rie, an historiographer, Adam Meremouth a canon of saint Paules church in London, that wrote two tre|tises of historicall matters, the one intituled Chroni|con 40 annorum, and the other Chronicon 60 annorum; Simon Bredon borne in Winchcombe a doctor of physicke and a skilfull astronomer, Iohn Thompson borne in Norfolke in a village of that name, and a Carmelite frier in Blacknie.