Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There liued in the daies of this king Richard,Baldwine & Hubert arch|bishops of Canturburie men of worthie fame amongst those of the cleargie, Bald|wine archbishop of Canturburie, and Hubert who succeeded him in that sée, also Hugh bishop of Lin|colne, a man for his worthinesse of life highlie to be commended. Moreouer, William bishop of Elie, who though otherwise he was to be dispraised for his ambition and pompous hautinesse, yet the king vsed his seruice for a time greatlie to his profit and ad|uancement of the publike affaires. Also of learned men we find diuerse in these daies that flourished here in this land, as Baldwine of Deuonshire that came to be bishop of Worcester in this kings time, and after his deceasse, he was aduanced to the go|uernment of the archbishops sée of Canturburie, he wrote diuerse treatises, namelie of matters pertein|ing to diuinitie. Iohn Bale. Daniell Morley well seene in the Mathematicals, Iohn de Hexam, and Richard de Hexham two notable historicians, Guilielmus Ste|phanides a moonke of Canturburie, who wrote much in the praise of archbishop Becket. Beside these, we find one Richard, that was an abbat of the order Premonstratensis, Richard Diuisiensis, Nicholas Walkington, Robert de Bello Foco, an excellent philosopher, &c. ¶ See Bale in his third Centurie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In martiall renowme there florished in this kings daies diuerse noble capteins, as Robert earle of Leicester, Ranulfe de Fulgiers, two of the Bar|dulphes, Hugh and Henrie, thrée Williams, Mar|shall, Brunell, and Mandeuill, with two Roberts, Ros and Sabeuile. Furthermore, I find that in the daies of this king Richard,A great derth a great derth reigned in England, and also in France, for the space of three or foure yeares during the wars betwéene him & king Philip, so that after his returne out of Germanie, and from imprisonment, a quarter of wheat was sold at 18 shillings eight pence, no small price in those daies, if you consider the alay of monie then currant.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Also immediatlie after, that is to say, in the yeare of our Lord, a thousand, one hundred, nintie six, which EEBO page image 157 was about the seuenth yere of the said kings reigne, there followed a maruellous sore death, which dailie consumed such numbers of people, that scarse there might be found any to kéepe and looke to those that were sicke,A great mor|talitie of peo|ple. W [...]l. Paruus. or to burie them that died. Which sicke|nesse was a pestilentiall feuer or sharpe burning a|gue. The accustomed manner of buriall was also neglected: so that in manie places they made great pits, and threw their dead bodies into the same, one vpon an other. For the multitude of them that died was such, that they could not haue time to make for euerie one a seuerall graue. This mortalitie conti|nued for the space of fiue or six months, and at length ceassed in the cold season of winter.