Compare 1577 edition: 1 Not long after this foresaid repulse, the king of England hauing refreshed his souldiers with some rest after their great trauell, went to Million,Million [...] and rased. and giuing assault to the towne wan it at the first brunt, and made it plaine with the earth. Then was a mo|tion made for peace betwixt the two kings,A motion for peace. being now wearied with long wars: whereof when earle Iohn was aduertised, who (as it should séeme by some writers) hauing tarried with the French king till this present, began now to doubt least if any agrée|ment were made, he might happilie be betraied of the French king by couenants that should passe be|twixt them: he determined therefore with himselfe to commit his whole safetie to his naturall brother, and to no man else, perceiuing that the French king made not so great accompt of him after the losse of his castels in England, as he had doone before.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon comming to his brother king Richard, he besought him to pardon his [...]ense, and though he had not dealt brotherlie towards him, yet that he would brotherlie forgiue him his rebellious trespasse, adding furthermore,
that whereas he had not hereto|fore beene thankefull for his manifold benefits which he had receiued at his hands, yet he was now most sorie therefore, and was willing to make amends: wherewith he acknowledged the safegard of his life to rest in him, for the which he was bound to giue him EEBO page image 147 thanks, if he would grant thereto.The king mooued with his words, made this answer (as it is said) that he pardoned him indéed, but yet wished that he might forget such iniuries as he had receiued at his hands, which he doubted least he should not easilie doo.Earle Iohn returneth to the king his brother, and is pardoned. Here|with erle Iohn being yet put in good hope of forgiue|nesse, sware to be true euer after vnto him, and that he would endeuour himselfe to make amends for his misdeeds past, and so was shortlie after restored vnto his former degree, honour and estimation in all respects.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Wil. Paruus. R. Houed. Matth. Paris. But by some writers it should appeare, that earle Iohn, immediatlie vpon conclusion of the first truce, came from the French king, and submitted himselfe to his brother, and by mediation of the quéene their mother was pardoned, receiued againe into fauour, and serued [...] after against the French king verie dutifullie, Rog. Houed. séeking by new atchiued enterpises brought about (to the contentation of his brother) to make a recompense for his former misdemeanor, re|puting it meere madnesse to make means to further mischeefe; for
But at what time soeuer he returned thus to his bro|ther, this yeare (as Roger Houeden saith) he was re|stored to the earledoms of Mortaigne in Norman|die, R. Houed. and Glocester in England, with the honour of Eie (the castels onelie excepted) and in recompense of the residue of the earledoms which he had before inioied, togither with certeine other lands, his bro|ther king Richard gaue vnto him a yeerelie pension amounting to the summe of eight thousand pound of Aniouin monie. ¶ Now here to staie a while at mat|ters chancing here about home, Rog. Houed. Wil. Paruus. Matth. Paris. Polychron. I will speake some|what of the dooings of Leopold duke of Austrich, who as one nothing mooued with the pestilence and fa|mine that oppressed his countrie in this season, but rather hauing his hart hardened, began to threaten the English hostages that they shuld loose their liues, if king Richard kept not the couenants which he had vndertaken to performe by a day appointed. Where|vpon Baldwin Betun one of the hostages was sent by common agréement of the residue vnto king Ri|chard,Baldwin de Betun. to signifie to him their estate. King Richard willing to deliuer them out of further danger, sent with the same Baldwin his coosen, the sister of Ar|thur duke of Britaine, and the daughter of the em|perour of Cypres, to be conueied vnto the said duke of Austrich, the one, namelie the sister of Arthur to be ioined in marriage with the dukes sonne, and the other to continue in the dukes hands to bestow at his pleasure.—stultum est hostem iritare potentemAt malum maius tumidis, sibi quaerere verbis.