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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Pope also being aduertised of the taking of king Richard, was much offended, Polydor. that anie christi|an prince, hauing taken vpon him the defense of the christian faith against the infidels, should be so vsed in his returne from so godlie an enterprise: and there|fore sent both to the duke of Austrich, and to the em|perour, requiring them to set him at libertie. But the emperour declared plainlie that he would be an|swered for such summes of monie as king Richard had taken out of Sicile before he would release him or set him at libertie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When king Richard perceiued that no excuses would serue, though neuer so iust,The bishop of Salisburie sent into En|gland. but that he must néeds paie to his couetous host some great summe of monie for his hard interteinment, he sent the bishop of Salisburie into England, to take order with the barons of the realme to prouide for the paiment of his ransome, which bishop (as yée haue heard) after the peace concluded with Saladine, went vnto Ierusa|lem to visit the holie sepulchre, and now comming into Sicile, as he returned homewards, had know|ledge there how king Richard was taken prisoner in Austrich, and remained in the emperours hands: wherevpon he turned that waie foorth, and comming to him, was now sent into England with commissi|on (as I haue said) to leauie monie for the kings ran|some. He landed bere the twentith day of Aprill, by whose comming the land was the sooner brought in quiet: for the agréement which earle Iohn tooke (as before yée haue heard) was cheefelie procured by his meanes. For till his comming, Ger. Dor. the castell of Wind|sore EEBO page image 139 was not woone, the siege being but slackelie fol|lowed by the archbishop of Rouen, who had diuerse of his fréends within it, and therefore was not verie earnest against them.