Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon therefore on the 26 of March, whiles he (togither with capteine Marchades) went about vnaduisedlie to view the towne (the better to consi|der the place which waie he might conueie the course of his mine) they came so farre within danger, that the king was striken in the left arme,He is woun|ded. or (as some write) in the shoulder, where it ioined to the necke, with a quarell inuenomed (as is to be supposed by the sequele.) Being thus wounded, he gat to his horsse, Ra. Niger. and rode home againe to his lodging, where he cau|sed the wound to be searched and bound vp, and as a man nothing dismaid therewith, continued his siege with such force and assurance, that within 12 daies after the mishap, the towne was yéelded vnto him, although verie little treasure (to make any great ac|compt of) was at that time found therein.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this meane season, the king had committed the cure of his wound to one of Marchades his sur|gions, who taking in hand to plucke out the quarell, drew foorth onelie the shaft at the first, and left the iron still within, and afterwards going about most vnskilfullie to get foorth the head of the said quarell, he vsed such incisions, and so mangled the kings arme, yer he could cut it,The king des|paired of life. that he himself despaired of all helpe and longer life, affirming flatlie to such as stood about him, that he could not long continue by reason of his butcherlie handling. To be short, fée|ling himselfe to wax weaker and weaker, preparing his mind to death, which he perceiued now to be at hand, he ordeined his testament,He ordeineth his testament. or rather reformed and added sundrie things vnto the same which he be|fore had made, at the time of his going foorth to|wards the holie land.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 EEBO page image 156Unto his brother Iohn he [...]ssigned the crowne of England, and all other his lands and dominions, cau|sing the Nobles there present to sweare fealtie vnto him. His monie, his iewels, and all other his goods mooueable he willed to be diuided into thrée parts, of the which Otho the emperor his sisters sonne to haue one, R. Houed. his houshold seruants an other part, and the third to be distributed to the poore. Finallie, re|membring himselfe also of the place of his buriall, he commanded that his bodie should be interred at Fonteuerard at his fathers feet, but he willed his heart to be conueied vnto Rouen, Matth. Paris. and there buried, in testimonie of the loue which he had euer borne vn|to that citie for the stedfast faith and tried loialtie at all times found in the citizens there. His bowels he ordeined to be buried in Poictiers, as in a place na|turallie vnthankefull and not worthie to reteine any of the more honorable parts of his bodie.