Compare 1577 edition: 1 Upon good and deliberate aduise taken in this matter, bicause it was iudged weightie, the king for answer told the French ambassadors, that he would neither spare paine nor cost, to set some reasonable staie betwixt their souereigne lord king Charles, and the duke of Britaine: so that a finall end and some perfect conclusion of friendship might be had betwixt them. And so as soone as the French ambassadors were returned home, the king sent his chapleine Christopher Urswike ouer into France to king Charles, as well to shew that he was glad of the vic|torie which he had against Maximilian; as to de|clare what a tempestuous storme of ciuill rebellion himselfe had escaped & ouercome heere in England.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But the chiefest point of Urswikes errand consi|sted in this,King Henries off [...]r to make an attonement betwixt the French king and the duke. that he should intimate to the French king, how his maister king Henrie offered himselfe as a mediator betwixt him and the duke of Britaine, to make them friends: and if he perceiued that the French king gaue eare herevnto, then should he go into Britaine, to mooue the duke there to be conten|ted, that some reasonable order might be taken for a quietnesse to be had betwixt the French king and him. Whilest Urswike was trauelling in this mat|ter (according to his commission) the king came backe againe to London,Christopher Urswike. where he was receiued of the citizens with great ioy and triumph, they being heartilie glad and greatlie reioising that he with such good successe had subdued his enimies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Shortlie after, he deliuered the lord Thomas mar|ques Dorset out of the Tower,The marques Dorset deliue|red out of the Tower. receiuing him againe to his former fauor and old familiaritie: bicause his truth and loialtie by diuers assaies and sundrie argu|ments had béene throughlie tried, and sufficientlie prooued. In which meane time, the king for the great loue that he bare to his wife quéene Elizabeth,The kings loue to his wife quéene Elizabeth. cau|sed hir to be crowned and anointed quéene on saint Katharins day in Nouember, with all solemnitie, as in such cases apperteineth. In the meane season Christopher Urswike (according to his commission) trauelled betwéene the French king and the duke of Britaine in the king of Englands name, to make them friends. But although the French king séemed willing enough to haue peace, yet meant he nothing lesse. For he had as manie subtilties in his heart, as [...]here be faces in the world, according to the poet:

Pectoribus fraudes tot sunt quot in orbe figurae.