Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After this, the admerall of Britaine highlie in|couraged, for that the last yeere he had taken certeine English ships laden with wines, acompanied with the lord du Chastell, a valiant baron of Britaine, and twelue hundred men of armes, sailed foorth with thir|tie ships from S. Malos, and came before the towne of Dartmouth, and would haue landed; but by the puissance of the townesmen and aid of the countrie, they were repelled, in the which conflict, the lord du Chastell,The lord du Chastell slaine. and two of his brethren, with foure hundred other were slaine, and aboue two hundred taken pri|soners and put to their ransoms, amongst whom the lord of Baqueuille the marshall of Britaine was one.Owen Glen|douer wasted the English marches. All this summer, Owen Glendouer and his ad|herents, robbed, burned, and destroied the countries adioining néere to the places where he hanted, and one while by sleight & guilefull policie, an other while by open force, he tooke and slue manie Englishmen, brake downe certeine castels which he wan, and some he fortified and kept for his owne defense. Iohn Trenor bishop of Assaph, considering with himselfe how things prospered vnder the hands of this O|wen, fled to him, and tooke his part against the king. About the same time, the Britaines and the Fle|mings tooke certeine ships of ours laden with mer|chandize,Crueltie of the Britains & Flemings. and slue all the marriners or else hanged them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Also, the old countesse of Oxford, mother to Ro|bert Ueere late duke of Ireland,The [...]untes of Oxford. that died at Lo|uaine, caused certeine of hir seruants, and other such as she durst trust, to publish and brute abroad, tho|rough all the parts of Essex,K. Richard once againe aliue. that king Richard was aliue, and that he would shortlie come to light, and claime his former estate, honor, and dignitie. She procured a great number of harts to be made of sil|uer and gold, such as king Richard was woont to giue vnto his knights, esquiers, & fréends, to weare as cognizances, to the end that in bestowing them in king Richards name, she might the sooner allure men to further hir lewd practises: and where the fame went abroad, that king Richard was in Scotland with a great power of Frenchmen and Scots, readie to come to recouer his realme, manie gaue the more light credit vnto this brute thus set foorth by the said countesse.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The persuasions also of one Serlo,Serlo one of K. Richards chamber. that in times past was one of king Richards chamber, greatlie in|creased this errour; for the same Serlo, hearing in France (whither he was fled) that his maister king Richard was in Scotland aliue, conueied himselfe thither, to vnderstand the truth of that matter, and finding there one indéed that greatlie resembled him in all lineaments of bodie, but yet was not the man himselfe (as he well perceiued) vpon malice that he bare to king Henrie, aduertised by letters sent vnto diuerse of king Richards freends, that he was aliue indéed, and shortlie would come to shew himselfe o|penlie to the world, when he had once made his waie readie to recouer his kingdome, to the confusion of his enimies, and comfort of his fréends. These forged inuentions caused manie to beleeue the brute raised by the countesse of Oxford, for the which they came in trouble, were apprehended and committed to pri|son.The countesse of Oxford committed to prison. The countesse hir selfe was shut vp in close pri|son, and all hir goods were confiscat, and hir secretarie drawen and hanged, that had spred abroad this fained report, in going vp and downe the countrie, blowing into mens eares that king Richard was aliue, & af|firming that he had spoken with him in such a place and in such a place,Hir secretarie executed. apparelled in this raiment and that raiment, with such like circumstances.