Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About the same time did the French king enter into Normandie with an armie, & comming to the towne of Gisors, besieged it, the which one Gilbert de Uascoll or Guascoill capteine thereof (to his high re|proch) yéelded vp vnto him, with an other castell also called Nefle, which he had likewise in kéeping. Af|ter this, Wil. Paruus. the French king entring into the countrie of Ueurine or Ueulquessine, wan diuers towns and fortresses in the same, and passing forward, tooke Ual de Rueil, and Neusburge, and finallie comming be|fore the citie of Rouen he laid siege thereto:

Rouen be|sieged.

The earle of Leicester.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane time, earle Iohn as head of all the conspiratours, perceiuing himselfe not able to at|chiue his purpose as then, nor to resist the lords and barons of the realme, being vp in armour against him, and now growen to greater stomach, bicause they vnderstood by the bishop of Salisburie latelie arriued, of the kings welfare, and hope of deliue|rance; and furthermore, considering that he was disappointed both of Scots and Flemings as he had well hoped should haue come to his aid: he tooke a truce with the lords of the kings side, by the earnest trauell of the bishop of Salisburie,Michaelmas: saith Ger. Dorob. till the feast of All saincts, so as the castels of Windsore, Walling|ford, and the Peake, should remaine in the hands of his mother queene Elianor; but the castels of No|tingham and Tickhill remained still in his owne possession, the which with such other castels as he held within the land, he furnished with garrisons of his owne men and freends, and then went againe ouer into France to the French king, to purchase some new aid at his hands according to his promise.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Here will we leaue earle Iohn conferring with the French king, Wil. Paruus. and returne to the king of Eng|land. Upon Palmesundaie after that he was deliue|red (or rather betraied) into the emperours hands, he was brought before the princes and lords of the em|pire,The empe|rour chargeth king Richard with iniuries doone to the Sicilians. in whose presence the emperour charged him with diuerse vnlawfull dooings: and namelie picked a quarell at him for the wrongs and hurts doone to the Sicilians in time of his soiourning in their Ile, as he went towards the holie land. For albeit the said emperour had nothing as then to doo in the countrie, yet for somuch as he had latelie recouered the Ile of Sicile out of king Tancreds hands, and was now intituled king thereof by the pope, in right of his wife Constance, the daughter of Roger king of Si|cile, and so by reason therof seemed to be gréeuouslie offended with him for his dooings about the recoue|ring of the monie from Tancred, which neuerthe|lesse was iustlie due vnto his sister for hir dowrie, as in the processe afore I haue alreadie declared. King Richard notwithstanding these vaine and other fri|uolous obiections laid to his charge, W. Paruus. Matth. West. The kings wisedome in making his answere. made his an|swears alwaies so pithilie and directlie to all that could be laid against him, and excused himselfe in e|uerie point so throughlie, that the emperour much maruelled at his high wisedome and prudence, and not onelie greatlie commended him for the fame, but from thencefoorth vsed him more courteouslie, and suffered that his fréends might haue accesse to him more fréelie than before they could be permitted.