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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 But in the meane time, on saint Stephans day, duke Leopold chanced to haue a fall beside his horsse,Duke Leo|pold catcheth a fall beside his horsse and dieth of the hurt. and hurt his leg in such wise, that all the surgions in the countrie could not helpe him, wherevpon in ex|treame anguish he ended his life. And whereas be|fore his death he required to be absolued of the sen|tence of excommunication pronounced against him by the pope (for apprehending of king Richard in his returning from his iournie made into the holie land) he was answered by the cleargie, that except he would receiue an oth to stand to the iudgement of the church for the iniurie doone to king Richard, and that vnlesse other of the Nobilitie would receiue the like oth with him if he chanced to die (whereby he might not fulfill that which the church héerein should decrée) that yet they should see the same performed, he might not otherwise be absolued.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Wherefore he tooke the oth, and the Nobles of his countrie with him, and therewithall released the English pledges, remitted the monie that yet remai|ned behind of his portion aforesaid, and immediatlie therewith died. After his deceasse, bicause certeine pée [...]es of the countrie withstood the performance of the premisses, his bodie laie eight daies longer aboue ground than otherwise it should haue doone, for till such time as all the pledges were perfectlie released, it might not be buried. Also Baldwin de Betun ap|proching neere to the confines of Austrich, when he heard that the duke was dead, returned with the two ladies vnto his souereigne lord king Richard. Th [...]s (as ye haue heard) for feare of the censures of the church were the pledges restored, and the residue of the monie behind released.