Compare 1577 edition: 1 The riuer of Trent dried vp.About the same time manie woonders were seene and heard of. The riuer of Trent néere to Noting|ham, for the space of a mile ceassed to run the woon|ted course during the time of foure & twentie houres, so that the chanell being dried vp, men might passe o|uer to and fro drie shod.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Monsters.Also a sow brought foorth a pig with a face like a man, & a chicken was hatched with foure feet. More|ouer a comet or blasing star appéered in a strange sort:A comet. Wil. Thorne. Matth. West. for rising in the east, when it once came aloft in the firmament, it kept not the course forward, but seemed to go backeward, as if it had bin retrograde.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About this season the king maried Robert his base sonne to the ladie Maud, Iohn Stow. Robert the kings base son created earle of Glo|cester daughter and heire to Robert Fitzham, and withall made his said sonne earle of Glocester, who afterwards builded the ca|stels of Bristow and Cardiff, with the priorie of S. Iames in Bristow, where his bodie was buried.