Compare 1577 edition: 1 Shortlie after their departure from the place where they landed, Enguerant. there came to them six hundred armed men of Gascoignes that were inrolled at Burdeaux. When newes thereof came to the French court, be|ing then at Auxerre, incontinentlie the earles of A|lanson and Richmond were dispatched to go vnto the English campe,The earle of Alanson and Richmond sent to y^e duke of Clarence. bicause they had euer béene par|takers with the duke of Orleance, to giue them thanks for their paines, and to aduertise them of the peace that had beene latelie concluded betwixt the parties, and therefore to take order with them, that they might be satisfied, so as they should not spoile & waste the countrie, as they had begun. But where|as the Englishmen were gréedie to haue, and the duke of Orleance was not rich to paie, they marched on towards Guien in good order,The duke of Clarence mar+cheth toward Guien. and what by sac|king of townes, and ransoming of rich prisoners, they got great treasure, and manie good preies and booties.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Being passed the riuer of Loire they spoiled the towne of Beaulieu, Enguerant. and with fire and sword wasted the countries of Touraine and Maine. The lord de Rambures appointed to resist such violence,The lord of Rambures. was ea|silie vanquished. Moreouer, to the aid of the duke of Orleance,The earles of Kent & War|wike sent o|uer to Calis. the king of England sent ouer to Calis the earls of Kent and Warwike, with two thousand fighting men, which spoiled and wasted the countrie of Bullennois, burnt the towne of Samer de Bois, and tooke with assault the fortresse of Russalt, and di|uerse other. Fabian. Coine chan|ged. This yeare, the king abased the coines of his gold and siluer, causing the same to be currant in this realme, at such value as the other was valued before, where indéed the noble was woorsse by foure pence than the former, and so likewise of the siluer, the coines whereof he appointed to be currant after the same rate.

Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 388.

Thrée floods without eb|bing betwéen.

¶In this kings time, and in the eighth yeare of his reigne (as Richard Grafton hath recorded) a worthie citizen of London named Richard Whitington, Abr. Fl. out of R. Grafton. pag. 433, 434. in folio. mercer and alderman, was elected maior of the said citie, and bare that office three times. This man so be|stowed his goods and substance, that he hath well de|serued to be registred in chronicles. First he erected one house or church in London to be a house of prai|er,Whitington college e|rected. and named the same after his owne name, Whi|tington college, remaining at this daie. In the said church, besides certeine preests and clearks, he placed a number of poore aged men and women, builded for them houses and lodgings, and allowed them wood, coles, cloth, and wéekelie monie to their great reléefe and comfort.Charitie. This man also at his owne cost builded the gate of London called Newgate in the yéere of our Lord 1422,Newgate builded. which before was a most oug|lie and lothsome prison. He also builded more than the halfe of S. Bartholomews hospitall in west Smith|field.S. Bartholo|mews hospital He builded likewise the beautifull librarie in the graie friers in London now called Christs hospitall, standing in the north part of the cloister thereof, where in the wall his armes be grauen in stone. He also builded for the ease of the maior of London, his brethren, and the worshipfull citizens, on the solemne daies of their assemblie,Guildhall chapell. a chapell adioining to the Guildhall; to the intent that before they entered in|to anie of their worldlie affaires, they should begin with praier and inuocation to God for his assistance: at the end ioining to the south part of the said chapell, he builded for the citie a librarie of stone, for the custodie of their records and other bookes. He also builded a great part of the east end of Giuldhall;Guildhall inlarged. and did manie other good déeds worthie of imitation. By a writing of this mans owne hand, which he willed to be fixed as a schedule to his last will and testa|ment, it appeareth what a pitifull and relenting heart he had at other mens miseries, and did not onelie wish but also did what he could procure for their re|leefe. In so much that he charged and commanded his executors, as they would answer before God at the daie of the resurrection of all flesh, that if they found anie debtor of his, whome if in conscience they thought not to be well worth three times as much as they owght him, and also out of other mens debt, and well able to paie, that then they should neuer de|mand it; for he clearlie forgaue it: and that they should put no man in sute for anie debt due to him. A worthie memoriall of a notable minded gentle|man.