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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 1111 Anno Reg. 12.In the yeare following, Foulke earle of Aniou, enuieng the prosperous estate of king Henrie, and lamenting the case of duke Robert, Fabian. The citie of Constances taken. wan the citie of Constances, by corrupting certeine of the kings subiects the inhabitants of the same. Whereof king Henrie being aduertised, passed ouer into Norman|die,The king pas+seth into Nor|mandie. recouered the said citie, punished the offendors, reuenged himselfe of the earle, and returned into England.

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