Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time the castels of Reading and Béertwell were deliuered to duke Henrie, and the la|die Gundreda countesse of Warwike draue out the souldiers that held it for king Stephan, Matth. Paris. Rob. Mont. and deliue|red the towne to duke Henrie. In this yeare duches Elenor, wife to Henrie Fitzempresse, was brought to bed of hir first borne son, whom they named Wil|liam, after the maner of the ancient dukes of Aqui|taine.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus came things to passe in sundrie places wi [...]h so good successe as duke Henrie could wish, where|vpon meaning to follow the steps of prosperous for|tune, he marched foorth to Stamford,Stamford was taken. Simon Dun. Ger. Dor. and taking the towne at his first comming laid siege to the castell. Now they that had it in keeping sent messengers to king Stephan, requiring rescue, but the same time he had laid siege to the castell of Gipswich, which Hugh Bigot kept against him:Gipswich or Ipswich be|sieged. and bicause he wold not depart from that siege till he had the castell gi|uen vp into his hands (which came at last to passe) in the meane time the castell of Stamford was yéelded vp to duke Henrie, N. Triuet. who immediatlie therevpon de|parted from Stamford eastward, meaning to come to the succour of his fréends besieged at Gipswich or Ipswich (as it is commonlie called) not vnderstan|ding as yet that they had surrendred the hold: but ha|uing knowledge by the way what was happened, he returned and marched streight to Notingham, and got the towne easilie;Notingham. for they within the castell had set it on fire, therfore he besieged the castell stan|ding vpon the point of a stéepe craggie rocke, and was furnished with a strong garison of men, and all things necessarie for defense, so that it could not ea|silie be woone.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 When duke Henrie had assaied all the waies how to take it, and saw that he could not preua [...]le,Duke Henrie raiseth his siege from Notingham. Polydor. he min|ded to loose no more time: but raising his siege from thence, he ranged abroad to get other places into his possession, and finallie came to his mother, and laie at Wallingford. King Stephan in the meane time being strong in the field, sought time and place to haue Henrie at s [...]me aduantage, who in his yoong yeares (as yet not hauing tasted any misfortune) he thought would rashlie attempt some vnaduised en|terprise. ¶ But whereas the realme of England had béene now manie yeares miserablie turmoiled with ciuill warre (which the verie heathen haue so de|tested,The miserie of this land in time of the ci|uill warre. that they haue exclaimed against it with a kind of irksomnesse; as:
EEBO page image 61Wherein (besides millians of extremities) honest matrones and mens wiues were violated, maids and virgins rauished, churches spoiled, townes and villages robbed, whole flocks and heards of shéepe and beasts destroied (wherein the substance of the realme cheeflie consisted) and men without number slaine and murthered, it pleased the goodnesse of al|mightie God at length to deliuer the land of these miseries, which were notified to all countries round about that sore lamented the same.Eheu cicatricum & sceleris pudet,Hor. lib. car. 1. ode. 35.Fratrúmque: quid nos dura refugimusAetas? quid intactum nefastiLinquimus? vnde manus iuuentusMetu deorum continuit? quibusPepercit aris?Idem. lib. car. 2. ode. 1. iam litui strepunt,Iamfulgor armorum fugacesTerret equos equitúmque vultus)