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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶All this was [...]th pleasant and profitable for king Richards soules helth (as may [...] thought) bicause he tooke occasion therof to amend hi [...] owne former [...] by considering how much he might be reprehe [...]e [...] for his sundrie faults committed both against God and man. A maruellous matter to [...]eare, how much frõ that time forward he reformed his former trade of liuing into a better forme & order. Moreouer, the emperour gaue to the Ci [...]teau [...] moonks 3000 marks of siluer, parcell of king Richards ransome,White monks to make siluer censers in euerie church throughout where they had any houses: but the abbats of the same order re|fused the gift, being a portion of so wrongfull and vn|godlie a gaine. At which thing, when it came to the knowledge of K. Richard, he greatlie maruelled at the first, but after commended the abbats in their dooings, and cheeflie for shewing that they were void of the accustomed gréedinesse of hauing, which most men supposed them to be much infected withall.