Compare 1577 edition: 1 The French writers impute the fault thereof vn|to English men, and the English writers laie it to French men.Reimond erle of Tholouze. The French writers say, that earle Ri|chard the son of king Henrie in breach of the league, made warre vpon Reimond earle of Tholouze. The English writers reproue the French king as a wic|ked man, in that he should of purpose breake the peace and moue warre against king Henrie, to with|draw him from going to make warre against the Saracens, to the which enterprise he was wholie bent and inclined. Such is the maner of manie wri|ters, who more affectionat to the loue of their coun|trie than to the truth, doo not obserue the law of histo|ries in their writings, but rather inueie one against another in a bralling and reprouing maner.

¶ Examples hereof are more than by any possibi|litie may be remembred, and namelie for breuitie sake George Bucchanan in the 8. booke of his Sco|tish historie verie reprochfullie speaketh of Richard Grafton (a right reuerend man whiles he liued and of entier name also being dead) charging him with ignorance, and the report of a shamelesse lier. Whose case, bicause it is not so conuenient to be handled in this place as els where, we will remit to the reigne ofwhere he shall be fullie & sufficient|lie answered. Edward the third, in whose time Iohn Balioll was king of Scots, and cleere him (as well as we can) from a Scotish slander. Another example also we haue, and that most notorious, of Gabriel Pra|teolus the Iesuit, who hauing neuer beene in Eng|land, nor yet vnderstanding the English toong, blush|eth not to say that the translation of the English bi|ble hath in it a thousand faults. O singular and in|sufferable impudencie, when men passe not what they vomit and cast vp out of a full gorge surfetting with malice and rancour! But what shall we say,

Horat. in art. poet.Omne superuacuum pleno de pectore manat.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Indeed (as Roger Houeden and other doo witnes) the foresaid earle Reimond, and also Aimer earle of Angolesme, Rog. Houed. The nobles of Poictou rebell against earle Richard. Geffrey de Racon, and Geffrey de Lu|signan, with the most part of all the Nobles of Poictou, made warre against earle Richard, and he held tacke against them all, and in the end ouercame them. Amongst other of earle Reimonds part whom he tooke, was one Peter Seille, by whose counsell earle Reimond had taken diuerse merchants of Poictou that were subiects to earle Richard,Peter Seille. & doone manie other displeasures to him and to his countrie, wherefore earle Richard kept this Peter in verie close prison, and would not put him to his ransome: in somuch that earle Reimond tooke two of the king of Englands knights, sir Robert Poer, and sir Ri|chard Fraser, as they were returning from Compo|stella, where they had béene to visit the bodie of S. Iames, but they were quicklie set at libertie by the French kings commandement, for the reuerence of S. Iames whose pilgrims they were.