Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About this time, Edward Courtneie, earle of Deuonshire,The lord Courneie go|eth ouer into Italie. of whom before yée haue heard, how he was appointed to remaine at Fodringheie vnder safe custodie, at length was set at libertie, came to the court, and got licence to passe the seas, went into Italie, where shortlie after he sickened, and died with|in foureteene daies after his sicknesse first tooke him: he was honorablie buried in Padwaie. This Court|neie was the onelie sonne and heire of Henrie, mar|quesse of Excester, cousine germane to king Henrie the eight, as is said before. For the said king and he were descended of two sisters,The lord Courtneie descended of the bloud [...]o [...]all. Elizabeth and Katha|rine, two of the daughters of king Edward the fourth, which propinquitie of bloud notwithstanding the said marquesse, for points of treason laid against him, suffered at the tower hill, the thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight, to the great do|lour of the most of the subiects of this realme, who for his sundrie vertues bare him great fauour and goodwill.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 After whose death, this yoong gentleman his sonne, being yet a child, was committed prisoner to the tower, where he remained vntill the beginning of the reigne of this quéene Marie (as before you haue heard.) This gentleman (as it appeared) was borne to be a prisoner, for from twelue yeares of age vnto thirtie, he had scarse two yeares libertie, within the which time he died, and obteined quiet, which in his life he could neuer haue. In the moneth of Maie next following,Ambassadors sent to treat a peace be|twéene the French king and the em|perour. cardinall Poole, who had bin a great la|bourer for peace betwéene the French king and the emperour, being accompanied with Stephan Gar|diner bishop of Winchester and chancellor of Eng|land, the erle of Arundell lord steward, and the lord Paget, were sent by the king and quéene ouer the sea to Calis, & from thence went to the towne of Marke where they met with the ambassadors of the emperor and the French king. From the emperour were sent the bishop of Arras with others. From the French king was sent the cardinall of Loraine, and the con|stable of France. In this treatie, cardinall Poole sat as president and vmpier in the name of the queene of England. This peace was greatlie laboured, where at the first, there was much hope, but in the end nothing was concluded: wherefore the seauen|teenth daie of Iune, this assemblie was dissolued, and the English ambassadours returned againe into England.

Abr. Fl. ex I. S. 1097.¶ In this moneth of August, in Suffolke, at a place by the sea side, all of hard stone and pibble, called in those parts a shelfe, lieng betwéene the townes of Oxford and Alborough, where neuer grew grasse, nor any earth was euer séene, there chanced in this barren place suddenlie to spring vp without any til|lage or sowing, great abundance of peason, whereof the poore gathered (as men iudged) aboue an hun|dred quarters;The necessitie of the poore re|lé [...]ued by Gods proui|dence. yet remained some ripe, & some blosso|ming, as manie as euer there were before. To the which place rode the bishop of Norwich, and the lord Willoughbie with others in great number, who found nothing but hard r [...]ckie stone for the space of thrée yards vnder the roots of those peason, which roots were great and long, and verie swéet in tast to the mouth of the eater, &c.