Compare 1577 edition: 1 Hauing thus spoken, and set things in good staie, as might be supposed, he shortlie after departed this life at Westminster the ninth of Aprill, in the yeare 1483, after he had reigned two and twentie yeares, one moneth, and eight daies. His bodie was with fu|nerall pompe conueied to Windsore, and there bu|ried. He left behind him issue by the quéene his wife two sonnes, Edward and Richard, with fiue daugh|ters; Elizabeth that was after quéene, married to Henrie the seauenth; Cicilie married to the vicount Welles; Briget a nunne professed in Sion or Dert|ford, as sir Thomas More saith; Anne married to the lord Thomas Howard, after earle of Surrie, and duke of Norffolke; Katharine wedded to the lord William Courtenie sonne to the earle of Deuon|shire. Beside these he left behind him likewise a base sonne named Arthur, that was after vicount Lisle. For the description of his person & qualities I will referre you to that which sir Thomas More hath writ|ten of him in that historie, which he wrote and left vnfinished of his sonne Edward the fift, and of his brother king Richard the third: which we shall (God willing) hereafter make you partaker of, as we find the same recorded among his other workes, word for word; when first we haue (according to our begun order) rehearsed such writers of our nation as liued in his daies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 As first, Nicholas Kenton borne in Suffolke a Carmelit frier in Gippeswich, prouinciall of his or|der through England; Henrie Parker a Carmelit frier of Doncaster, preached against the pride of pre|lats, and for such doctrine as he set foorth, was impri|soned with his fellow Thomas Holden, and a cer|teine blacke frier also for the like cause; Parker was forced to recant thrée speciall articles, as Bale no|teth out of Leland; Iohn Harding an esquier borne in the north parts, wrote a chronicle in English verse, and among other speciall points therein tou|ched, he gathered all the submissions and homages had and made by the Scotish kings, euen from the daies of king Athelstan [whereby it euidentlie may appeare, how the Scotish kingdome euen in manner from the first establishing thereof here in Britaine, hath beene apperteining vnto the kings of England, and holden of them as their chéefe & superior lords.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 William Iue a doctor of diuinitie and prebenda|rie of saint Paules in London; Thomas Wilton a diuine, and deane of the said church of Paules in London; Iulian Bemes, a gentlewoman indued with excellent gifts both of bodie and mind, wrote certeine treatises of hawking and hunting, deligh|ting greatlie hir selfe in those exercises and pastimes; she wrote also a booke of the lawes of armes, and knowledge apperteining to heralds; Iohn Stam|berie borne in the west parts of this realme, a Car|melit frier, and confessor to king Henrie the sixt, he was also maister of Eaton colledge, and after was made bishop of Bangor, and remooued from thence to the sée of Hereford; Iohn Slueleie an Augustine frier, prouinciall of his order; Iohn Fortescue a iudge and chancellor of England, wrote diuerse treatises concerning the law and politike gouerne|ment.