Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 At length, king Richard remembring himselfe of his mother quéene Elianor, Matt. Paris. who had béene separated from the bed of hir husband for the space of sixtéene yeares, and was as yet deteined in prison in Eng|land, wrote his letters vnto the rulers of the realme, commanding them to set hir againe at libertie,The kings mother set at libertie. and withall appointed hir by his letters patents, to take vpon hir the whole gouernment of the kingdome in his absence. The quéene being thus deliuered, and hauing now the cheefe authoritie & rule in hir hands, rode in progresse about the realme, to sée the estate thereof; and as she passed from place to place, she shewed gladsome countenance to the people where|soeuer she came, dooing also what she could to plea|sure them, that she might thereby win their good willes to hir, and to hir sonne: but speciallie remem|bring by hir late experience and tast thereof, what an irksome & most gréeuous thing imprisonment was, she caused the gailes to be opened, and foorthwith set no small number of prisoners at libertie by the way as she passed through the countries, according to the verse of Virgil,

Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane time, king Richard concluding a league with Philip king of France, receiued all those places againe which were taken from his father by the same Philip, togither with his wife Adela, whom vpon suspicion that she had beene dishonested in hir person before, without anie sufficient proofe thereof had, he forsooke, & sent hir home with hir dowrie, and otherwise with great and princelie gifts, most boun|tifullie inriched, hauing alreadie concluded a marri|age with the ladie Berengaria, daughter to Garsias king of Nauarre, who was sent into Sicill vnto hir sister Ioane, that he might marrie hir there, as he passed that waie towards the holie land.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Whilest these things passed thus in these parties, the christians in the holie land dailie sent hither for aid, wherevpon the two kings of France and Eng|land tooke counsell togither,The 2. kings of England & France deter|mine to go in|to the holie land. and determined with all conuenient speed to ioine their powers, & with ships prepared for that purpose to saile into Syria. Ha|uing thus concluded, they went about to prepare themselues of necessarie prouision for so long a iour|nie.At South|hampton the 21 of August saith Ger. Dor. Now when king Richard had set in order his af|faires in Normandie and France, he came ouer in|to England, landing at Portesmouth the 13. of Au|gust. With him also came his brother Iohn, vnto whom he assigned the castels of Marlebridge, Rog. Houed. Matth. Pari [...]. Lute|gareshall, Peake, Bollesour, the honor of Walling|ford, Tikehill and Eie, with the earledoms of Mor|taigne, Dorset, Sumerset, Notingham, Derbie, Deuonshire, and Cornewall, with the earledome of Lancaster, intituling him earle of the same, whereby he was so exalted in state and degree, that he séemed in manner of a tetrarch, hauing as it were a fourth part of the realme in gouernance: but yet the king held some of the castels (in those counties and honors thus giuen to his brother) in his owne hands. More|ouer, vnto William Marshall he gaue in marriage the daughter of Richard earle of Chepstow, togither with the earledome which hir father possessed; and to Gilbert Fitz Roger the sonne of Rainfrey he gaue the daughter of William de Lancaster. After he was landed (as before ye haue heard) he hasted to Winchester, where his mother quéene Elianor with the most part of the English nobilitie had laine a good space to attend his comming, and there on the e|uen of the assumption of our ladie, the king was by them receiued with great ioy and triumph.