Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, of nature he was pitifull towards the poore, Radulphus de Diceto. as it well appeared by diuerse his charitable deeds; as for example. When in the yeare 1176. there was a great dearth & scarsitie of bread in the parts of Aniou & Maine, he fed euerie daie with sufficient sus|tenance ten thousand persons, from the begining of Aprill, till the time that new corne was inned: and what prouision soeuer was laid vp in garners, cellers and storehouses, for the kings necessarie vses, he cau|sed the same to be imploied towards the reléefe of re|ligious houses, and poore people. He tooke of his sub|iects but sildome times any great tributes. He was verie expert in feats of warre, and right fortunate therein. He praised his capteins and men of warre when they were dead, and lamented their losse more than he shewed to loue them when they were aliue. And this did he of policie, that they might vnder|stand that they should be honoured after death, and therefore feare it the lesse. He was somwhat learned, and also knowne to be wise.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Radulphus de Di [...]eto. His care to haue iustice dulie ministred in his realme was exceeding great, insomuch that finding how the shirifes were rather inclined to seeke their owne gaine, than to deale vprightlie with his sub|iects, he appointed other officers to haue a regard to their dooings, as if they had béene controllers, that they knowing how there were such appointed to haue a sound ouersight in their dealings, might be the more circumspect in their duties. He ordei|ned also punishments for hunters in forrests and grounds of warren, either by fining them, or by im|prisonment.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, he ordeined that murtherers should suffer death by hanging: and so for other transgres|sours he appointed other kinds of punishments, as some to be condemned to exile, and other to losse of lims, &c: according to the qualitie of the offense com|mitted. And to haue the lawes dulie executed, and iustice vprightlie ministred on all hands, he was so carefull that he tried all orders of men, in placing them in roomes of iustice. And lastlie, trusting to find among the cleargie such as would not be cor|rupted with bribes, nor for respect of feare or freend|ship decline from right iudgement, he chose foorth the bishops of Winchester, Elie,Bishops cho|sen principall iustices. and Norwich to be principall iustices of the relme, so as they might end and determine all matters, except in certeine cases reserued to the hearing of the prince himselfe.