The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 167)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This truce being obteined, ambassadours were sent from them of Rouen into England, to signifie vnto king Iohn the whole state of the citie, and of the truce, so that if aid came not within the time ap|pointed, the citie must néeds be deliuered into the e|nimies hands. The king hauing no armie in readi|nesse to send ouer, nor other shift to make for the succour of the citie, permitted the ambassadours to depart without comfort of any aid, who herevpon re|turning to Rouen, and reporting what they had hard, séene, and found, brought the citie into great sorrow. For whereas that citie had euer béene accustomed to glorie for the great loialtie and faithfull fidelitie which the same had euer shewed towards their liege lords and naturall princes;The great fi|delitie of the citizens of Rouen. now the citizens percei|ued manifestlie, that vnlesse they would cast awaie themselues, and lose all they had, they must of force yeeld into the hands of their enimies. Wherefore to make their true allegiance more apparant to the world, they staied the surrender as long as they had any store of vittels within the citie to releeue their fainting bodies withall:Rouẽ through famine is sur|rendred to the French king. and so in the end being van|quished with hunger, they submitted themselues to the French king. Their submission being once knowne, caused all those other townes which had not yéelded, to deliuer vp their keies vnto the French|men, as Arques, Uernueill, and others.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Moreouer the townes in Poictou, Touraine, and Aniou, which king Iohn had recouered latelie before, did now againe (being in no small feare) yeeld them|selues vnto king Philip: Matth. Paris. so that of all the townes within those countries, there remained none vnder the English obeisance, saue onelie Rochell, Tours, Niorth, and a few other. Thus Normandie which king Rollo had purchased and gotten 316 yeares before that present time, was then recouered by the French men, to the great reproch and dishonour of the Eng|lish, in this yeare 1204. About this time quéene Eli|anor the mother of king Iohn departed this life, con|sumed EEBO page image 168 rather through sorow and anguish of mind, than of any other naturall infirmitie.

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[...] this s [...]ould [...] in the dai [...]s of K. Henrie the second.

A fish like to a man.

In this sixt yeare of king Iohns reigne, at Oxe|ford in Suffolke, as Fabian saith (although I sh [...]ke he be deceiued in the time) a fish was taken by fish| [...]rs in their nets as they were at sea, resembling in s [...]ape a wild or sauage man, whome they presented vnto sir Bartholomew de Glanuille knight, that had then the kéeping of the castell of Oreford in Suf|folke. He was naked, and in all his liues and mem|bers resembling the right proportion of a man; he had haires also in the vsuall parts of his bodie albeit that the crowne of his head was bald, his beard was long and rugged, and his breast hairie. The knight caused him to be kept certeine daies & nights from the sea, me [...]t set afore him he greedilie deuoured, & did eat fish both raw and sod. Those that were raw he pressed in his hand till he had thrust out all the moisture, and so then did eat them. He would not or could not vtter any speach, although to trie him they hung him vp by the héeles, and miserablie tormented him. He would get him to his couch at the setting of the sunne, and rise againe at the rising of the same.