Compare 1577 edition: 1 With other lords and men of account in great numbers, whose names the author of the chronicles of Normandie could not come by (as he himselfe confesseth.) In consideration whereof, and bi|cause diuers of these are set foorth onlie by their titles of estate, and not by their surnames; we haue thought it conuenient to make you partakers of the roll which sometime belonged to Battell ab|beie, conteining also (as the title thereof importeth) the names of such Nobles and Gen|tlemen of Marque, as came at this time with the Conqueror, whereof diuerse maie be the same persons which in the catalog aboue written are contei|ned, bearing the names of the places whereof they were posses|sours and owners, as by the same catalog maie appeare.