Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The first two moneths passed, and no likelihood of rescue appeared; but yer the third moneth was expi|red, EEBO page image 521 the Englishmen being sent for to go with the king into Wales, raised their siege and departed, lea|uing the noble men prisoners with the earle of Nor|thumberland, and with his sonne the lord Persie, to keepe them to the kings vse. In this meane while, such as misliked with the doctrine and ceremonies then vsed in the church,The profes|sors of Wic| [...]lifs doctrine. ceassed not to vtter their con|sciences, though in secret, to those in whome they had affiance. But as in the like cases it commonlie hap|neth, they were bewraied by some that were thought chieflie to fauour their cause, as by sir Lewes Clif|ford knight, who hauing leaned to the doctrine a long time, did now (as Thomas Walsingham writeth) dis|close all that he knew vnto the archbishop of Can|turburie, to shew himselfe as it were to haue erred rather of simplenesse and ignorance, than of froward|nesse or stubborne malice. The names of such as taught the articles and conclusions mainteined by those which then they called Lollards or heretikes, the said sir Lewes Clifford gaue in writing to the said archbishop.Sir Lewes Clifford be|wraieth his fellowes. Edmund Mortimer earle of March, pri|soner with Owen Glendouer, whether for irkesom|nesse of cruell captiuitie, or feare of death, or for what other cause, it is vncerteine, agréed to take part with Owen,The earle of March mari|eth the daugh|ter of Owen Glendouer. against the king of England, and tooke to wife the daughter of the said Owen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Strange wonders happened (as men reported) at the natiuitie of this man, for the same night he was borne, all his fathers horsses in the stable were found to stand in bloud vp to the bellies. The morow after the feast of saint Michaell, a parlement began at Westminster, Anno Reg. 4. A parlement. which continued the space of seauen weekes, in the same was a tenth and a halfe granted by the cleargie, and a fiftéenth by the communaltie. Moreouer, the commons in this parlement besought the king to haue the person of George earle of March a Scotishman,George earle of March re|commended to the king by parlement. recommended to his maiestie, for that the same earle shewed himselfe faithfull to the king & his realme. ¶ There was also a statute made, that the friers beggers should not receiue any into their order, vnder the age of fourteene yeares. In this fourth yeare of king Henries reigne, ambassadors were sent ouer into Britaine,Ambassadors. to bring from thence the duches of Britaine, the ladie Iane de Nauarre, the widow of Iohn de Montford, late duke of Bri|taine, surnamed the conqueror, with whom by pro|curators the king had contracted matrimonie. In the beginning of Februarie, those that were sent re|turned with hir in safetie, but not without tasting the bitter stormes of the wind and weather, that tossed them sore to and fro, before they could get to land. The king met hir at Winchester, where the seuenth of Februarie, the marriage was solemnized betwixt them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Whilest these things were thus in dooing in Eng|land, Ualeran earle of saint Paule, bearing still a deadlie and malicious hatred toward king Henrie, hauing assembled sixtéene or seuentéene hundred men of warre,The earle of saint Paule to the Ile of Wight. imbarked them at Harflew, and ta|king the sea, landed in the Ile of Wight, in the which he burned two villages, and foure simple cotages, and for a triumph of so noble an act, made foure knights. But when he heard that the people of the Ile were assembled and approched to fight with him, he ha|sted to his ships, and returned home: wherewith the noble men of his companie were displeased, conside|ring his prouision to be great and his gaine small. In the same verie season,The earle of Cleremont in Gascoigne. Iohn earle of Cleremont sonne to the duke of Bourbon, wan in Gascoigne out of the Englishmens possession, the castels of saint Peter, saint Marie, and the New castell; and the lord de la Bret wan the castell of Carlassin, which was no small losse to the English nation.