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Compare 1577 edition: 1 8. That no man should buy anie flesh to sell it againe, except a liuing beast, which he should kill within the campe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 9. That no man should make bread to sell, but after the rate of penny loaues. Wherin the penie English was appointed to go for foure pence Aniouine. All these ordinances with other were decreed and ordeined to be obserued and kept by the counsell, consent, and agreement of the kings of England, France, and Sicile.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But to returne now to the dissention betwixt the Englishmen and them of Messina: Polydor. ye shall vnderstand that the tumult being once ceased, and diuerse of the cheefe offendors in the late commotion put to death, king Tancred shortlie after came thither, and sought to auoid all suspicion out of king Richards head, that he might conceiue of him for beeing in anie wise culpable in that which his subiects of Messina had attempted against him, and therefore hauing recouered monie of his freends, he restored vnto king Richard the dowrie of his sister queene Ioane, and further offered vnto him to ioine in new alliance with him, offering his daughter in mariage vnto Arthur duke of Britaine, the kings nephue, with a great summe of monie for hir dowrie, if it so should please him.

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