¶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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Yée haue heard how the duke of Clarence and his armie did much hurt in the realme of France, Anno Reg. 14. in pla|ces as he passed: wherevpon at length,The duke of Orleance cõ|meth to y^e En|glish armie. the duke of Orleance being earnestlie called vpon to dispatch the Englishmen out of France, according to an ar|ticle comprised in the conclusion of the peace, he came to the duke of Clarence, rendering to him and his armie a thousand gramersies, and disbursed to them as much monie as he or his fréends might easi|lie spare; and for the rest being two hundred and nine thousand frankes remaining vnpaid, he deliuered in gage his second brother, Iohn duke of Angolesme, which was grandfather to king Francis the first, that reigned in our daies, sir Marcell de Burges, and sir Iohn de Samoures, sir Archembald Uiliers, and di|uerse other, which earle continued long in England, as after shall appeare. When this agreement was thus made betwixt the dukes of Orleance and Cla|rence, the English armie with rich preies, booties and prisoners came to Burdeaux, making warre on the frontiers of France, to their great gaine.The lord of Helie marshal of France. In this meane while, the lord of Helie, one of the marshals of France, with an armie of foure thousand men, besie|ged a certeine fortresse in Guien, which an English knight, one sir Iohn Blunt kept, who with thrée hun|dred men that came to his aid, discomfited, chased,Sir Iohn Blunt. and ouerthrew the French power, tooke prisoners twelue men of name, and other gentlemen to the number of six score, and amongst other, the said mar|shall, who was sent ouer into England, and put in the castell of Wissebet, from whence he escaped, and got ouer into France, where seruing the duke of Orle|ance at the battell of Agincort, he was slaine among other.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this fourtéenth and last yeare of king Henries reigne, Fabian. The k. mea [...] to haue made a iournie a|gainst the Infidels. a councell was holden in the white friers in London, at the which, among other things, order was taken for ships and gallies to be builded and made readie, and all other things necessarie to be prouided for a voiage which he meant to make into the holie land, there to recouer the citie of Ierusalem from the Infidels. For it gréeued him to consider the great malice of christian princes, that were bent vpon a mischéefous purpose to destroie one another, to the perill of their owne soules, rather than to make war against the enimies of the christian faith, as in con|science (it séemed to him) they were bound. He held his Christmas this yeare at Eltham,The king is vexed with sicknesse. being sore vex|ed with sicknesse, so that it was thought sometime, EEBO page image 541 that he had beene dead: notwithstanding it pleased God that he somwhat recouered his strength againe, and so passed that Christmasse with as much ioy as he might.