Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This rumor rose so fast, that at length (by bruting abroad, that certeine miracles should be wrought by a chaine,An old whor|monger, and a new saint. wherein he was bound in time of his im|prisonment) he was taken for a saint. The place also where he suffered, was visited by women, and other superstitious folks, as a plot of great holinesse, till at length the archbishop caused it to be watched, to the end that no such foolishnesse should be vsed there. In fine, the opinion which the people had thus fondlie conceiued of his vertue and innocencie, was by lit|tle and little remooued out of their heads, when his acts were more certeinlie published: as the sleaing of a man with his owne hands, and the vsing of his concubine within Bowe church, during the time of his being there. Also the archbishop accursed a préest, which had first brought vp the false report and fained fable of the miracle wrought by the chaine, whereby the occasion of idolatrie was first giuen, and might easilie haue béene continued, if the archbishop had not béene the wiser man, and by such means repressed the rumour. ¶ So that we are to note by this example the force of counterfeit holinesse and feigned harme|lesnesse in hypocrits,
—qui pelle sub agniVipereum celant vi [...]us morés, luporum,Et stol [...]dos ficta virtutis imagine fallunt.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now to returne vnto the dooings of king Ri|chard in France. Ye haue heard how a peace was concluded (as some haue written) but the same con|tinued not long: for the French king séeming to re|pent himselfe of that he had doone (as is aforesaid) brake the peace, and raising a power, besieged Albe|marle, at length wa [...] it, and raced it downe to the ground, then king Richard gaue vnto him thrée thou|sand marks of siluer for the ransome of his knights and yeomen, or demilances (as I may call them) that were taken in that fortresse. After this, the French king wan Nouencourt, and earle Iohn tooke the ca|stell of Gamages.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The erledome of Poictou.About the same time also king Richard gaue vnto his nephue Otho the earledome of Poictou. Which I haue thought good to note out of Roger Ho [...]eden, to remooue the doubt of Iohn Bouchet, who in the third part of his annales of Aquitaine,Iohn Bou|chet his dou [...]. maruelleth at an old panehart or record which he had séene, by the tenour whereof it appeared, that this Otho inti|tuled himselfe duke of Aquitaine and earle of Poic|tou, being in his castell of Monstereulbonin neere to Poictiers, in the yeare a thousand, one hundreth, ninetie nine, in presence of Geffrey de Lusignen, and others, and granted vnto a certeine person the office of cutting the monie in the mint of that towne, as by the same [...] hart it further appeareth.