Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king by such tokens as the empresse gaue him, tooke hir words to be true, and therevpon all his malice was streightwaies quenched: so that calling foorth the archbishop of Canturburie, he vttered to him the whole matter, and tooke therewith such dire|ction, in sending to his aduersaries for auoiding bat|tell at that present, that immediatlie the armies on both sides wrapped vp their ensignes, and euery man was commanded to kéepe the peace, that a commu|nication might be had about the conclusion of some pacification, which afterwards ensued in maner a|boue mentioned.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ But whether this or some other cause moued the king to this peace, it is to be thought that God was the worker of it. And surelie a man may thinke it good reason, that the report of such secret companie-keeping betwixt the king and the empresse,Slanders de|uise [...] by mali|cious heads. was but a tale made among the common people vpon no ground of truth, but vpon some slanderous deuice of a malicious head. And admit that king Stephan had to doo with hir; yet is it like that both of them would doo for best to kéepe it secret, that no such reproch might be imputed either to Henrie, who was taken to be legitimate; or to his mother, whose honour ther|by EEBO page image 64 should not a little be stained.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Oxenford. Ger. Dor. The king and duke meet at Dunstable.But now to the purpose. Shortlie after that the king and duke Henrie had béene togither at Oxen|ford, where they ended all things touching the peace & concord betwixt them concluded, they met againe at Dunstable, where some cloud of displeasure see|med to darken the bright sunshine of the late begun loue and amitie betwixt those two mightie princes the king and the duke.Articles not performed. For where it was accorded (among other articles) that all the castels which had béene built since the daies of the late king Henrie for euill intents and purposes, should be razed and throwne downe: contrarie therevnto (notwithstan|ding manie of them were ouerthrowne and destroied to the accomplishment of that article) diuers through the kings permission were suffered to stand. And when the duke complained to the king thereof, he could not get at that time any redresse, which some|what troubled him: but yet bicause he would not giue occasion of any new trouble, nor offend the king, to whom (as to his reputed father) he would seeme to yeeld all honour and due reuerence, he pas|sed it ouer.