Compare 1577 edition: 1 Abr. Fl. ex I. S. 1105. Dearth and plentie.¶This yeare before haruest, wheat was sold for foure marks the quarter, malt at foure & fortie shil|lings the quarter, beans & rie at fortie shillings the quarter, & pease at six and fortie shillings and eight pence: but after haruest wheat was sold for fiue shil|lings the quarter, malt at six shillings eight pence, rie at thrée shillings foure pence. So that the penie wheat loafe, that weied in London the last yéere but eleuen ounces Troie, weied now six and fiftie oun|ces Troie. In the countrie, wheat was sold for foure shillings the quarter, malt at foure shillings eight pence; and in some places a bushell of rie for a pound of candles which was foure pence. The seauenth of September, Iohn Caius. at seauen of the clocke at night, in a blacke rainie cloud in the west was séene a rainbow, the moone in the east risen one houre before, and faire shining, and at the full the daie before.] This present moneth of March king Philip,The returne of king Phi|lip into Eng|land. who a long season had béene in Flanders to take possession & gouernment of the low countries (as is aforsaid) did now returne into England, and passed through London, being ac|companied with the quéene and diuerse nobles of the realme.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The foure and twentith of Aprill Thomas Staf|ford, second sonne to the lord Stafford, with other to the number of two and thirtie persons, comming forth of France by sea, arriued at Scarborough in Yorkeshire, where they tooke the castell, and held the same two daies, and then were taken without ef|fusion of bloud by the earle of Westmerland. The said Stafford and Richard Sanders, otherwise cal|led capteine Sanders,Stafford and others com|mitted to the tower, and af|ter executed. with three or foure others, of the which one was a Frenchman, were sent vp to London, & there committed to prison in the tower. The said Stafford and foure others were arreigned and condemned. Wherevpon the eight and twentith of Maie, being fridaie, the said Stafford was behea|ded on the tower hill; and on the morrow thrée of his companie, as Strellie, Bradford, and Proctor, were drawen from the tower to Tiborne, and there execu|ted. Their heads were set ouer the bridge, and their quarters ouer the gates about the same citie. Cap|teine Sanders had his pardon, and so escaped. The first of Maie Thomas Persie was made knight,Thomas Persie crea|ted earle of Northum|berland. and after lord, and on the next daie he was created earle of Northumberland. The queene gaue vnto him all the lands which had béene his ancestors, re|maining at that time in hir hands.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this season, although the French king (as was said) was verie loth to h [...]ue warres with England, yet the quéene tangling hir selfe contrarie to pro|mise in hir husbands quarrell, sent a defiance to the French king by Clarenceaux king of armes; who comming to the citie of Remes, where the said king then laie, declared the same vnto him the seuenth of Iune, being the mondaie in Whitsunwéeke. On the which daie, Garter and Norreie king of armes, ac|companied with other heralds, and also with the lord maior and certeine of the aldermen of the citie of London,Quéene Ma|rie proclameth open warres against the French king. by sound of three trumpets that rode before them, proclamed open war against the said French king, first in Cheape side, and after in other parts of the citie, where customarilie such proclamations are made: the shiriffes still riding with the heralds, till they had made an end, although the lord maior brake off in Cheape side, and went to saint Peters to heare seruice, and after to Paules, where (accor|ding to the vsage then) he went on procession. King Philip bicause of the warres towards,King Philip passed ouer in|to Flanders betwixt him and the French king, the sixt of Iulie passed ouer to Calis, and so into Flanders, where on that side the seas he made prouision for those warres: at which time there was great talke among the com|mon people, muttering that the king making small account of the quéene, sought occasions to be absent from hir.