¶ A notable example to all princes that haue the conquest ouer their enimies, to referre the happie getting thereof to God, and to giue praise vnto him who giueth victorie vnto whom it pleaseth him. Which the Psalmograph saw verie well, and therefore ascri|bed all the issue of his prosperous affaires to God, as may well be noted by his words, saieng expresselie,

— ab illo

Munior, hic instar tur [...]is & arcis erat,Eo [...]. H [...]ss. in Psal. 144.

Dura manus in bella meas qui format & armat,

Ad fera qui digitos instruit arma meos.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Now will we staie the proceedings of the king of France at this time, and make no further relation thereof for a while, till we haue touched other things that happened in England at the same season. And first ye shall vnderstand, that Hugh Bardolfe, Ro|ger Arundell, and Geffrey Hachet, to whom as iu|stices, the counties of Lincolne, Notingham, Yorke, Derbie, Northumberland, Westmerland, Cumber|land, and Lancaster were appointed for circuits, held not onelie plées of assises, and of the crowne, but al|so tooke inquisitions of escheats,Inquisitions taken. and forfaitures of all maner of transgressions, and of donations of be|nefices, of marriages of widowes and maids, and other such like things as apperteined to the king, whereby any aduantages grew to his vse, the which for tediousnesse we passe ouer. These things were streightlie looked vnto, not without the disquieting of manie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herewith came an other trouble in the necke of this former, to diuerse persons within the realme, through inquiries taken by the iustices of the for|rests: for Hugh Neuill, Hugh Waley, and Heruisi|us Neuill, appointed iustices itinerants in that case, were commanded by the king to call before them archbishops, bishops, earles, barons, knights, and fréeholders, with the reeue, and foure of the substan|tiall men of euerie towne or village,Ordinances of forrests. to heare and take knowledge of the kings commandement, tou|ching the ordinances of forrests, the which were ve|rie straight in sundrie points, so that whereas before those that offended in killing of the kings deere were punished by the purse, now they should lose their eies and genitals, as the lawe was in the daies of king Henrie his grandfather: and those that offended in cutting downe woods or bushes, or in digging and deluing vp of turues and clods, or by any other ma|ner of waie made waste and destruction in woods or grasse, or spoile of venison, within the precinct of the forrests, contrarie to order, they should be put to their [...]ines.