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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 King Richard this yeare pardoned Hugh Nouant bishop of Couentrie of all his wrath and displeasure conceiued toward him, Rog. Houed. Hugh Nouãt bishop of Co|uentrie resto|red to his sée. and restored to him his bi|shoprike for fiue thousand marks of siluer. But Ro|bert Nouant the same bishops brother died in the kings prison at Douer. Also whereas the archbishop of Yorke had offended king Richard,The archbish|op of Yorke. he pardoned him, and receiued him againe into fauour, with the kisse of peace. Wherevpon the archbishop waxed so proud, that vsing the king reprochfullie, he lost his archbishoprike, the rule of Yorkeshire which he had in gouernment as shiriffe, the fauour of his soue|reigne, and (which was the greatest losse of all) the loue of God. For

Nemo superbus amat superos, nec amatur ab illis,M. Pal. in suo sag.

Vult humiles Deus ac mites, habitát libenter

Mansuetos animos procul ambitione remotos,

Inflatos verò ac ventosos deprimit idem,

Nec patitur secum puro consistere olympo.