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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The sight whereof brought the sai [...] Bouchet into a great perplexine, considering that no chronicle which he had either seene, or heard of, made mention of any Otho that shuld be duke of Aquitaine, or erle of Poicto [...], either before that time, or after. Where againe it was euident to him, that queene Elianor the mother of king Richard, as then liuing, named hir selfe dutchesse of Aquitaine, and countesse of Poictou; & likewise king Richard intituled himselfe duke of Aquitaine, and earle of Poictou, euer after he had fianced the earle of Barcelons daughter, as by diuerse records both of the mother and the sonne he had séene perfect notice. At length yet he gesseth (and that trulie) that it should be this Otho, to whom the mother and sonne had assigned the dutchie of A|quitaine and countie of Poictou, for the mainte|nance of his estate, he holding the same till the yeare 1199, in the which he was made emperour by king Richards good helpe, as after shall be shewed more at large.