Compare 1577 edition: 1 King Iohn then hauing recouered strength [...] him and being aduertised that William de [...] was entred into the castell of Rochester with a great number of knights, [...] men of armes and other souldiers, hasted thither with his whole arme, and be|sieged them within, inforcing himselfe by all waies possible to win the castell as well by battering the walles with engines, [...] as by giuing thereto manie as|saults: but the garison within consisting of nintie and foure knights beside demilances, and other soul|diers defended the place verie manfullie, in hope of reseue from the barons, which laie as then at Lon|don: but they comming forward one daies iournie vnto Dartford, when they heard that the king was comming forward in good araie of battell to meet them vpon consideration had of their owne forces, for that they were not able to match him with foot|men, they returned barke againe to the citie, break|ing that assured promise which they had made and al|so confirmed by their solemne oths, which was that if the castell should chance to be besieged, [...] they would not faile but raise the siege.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At length they within for want of vittels were constreined to yeeld it vp vnto the king, after it had beene besieged the space of three score daies: [...] during which ti [...]e they had beaten backe their enimies at sundrie assaults, with great slaughter and losse. But the king hauing now got the possession of that hold, vpon greefe conceiued for the losse of so manie men, and also bicause he had line so long about it yet he could w [...]nne it, to his inestimable costs and charges, was determined to haue put them all to death that had kept it. [...] But Sauerie de Ma [...]leon aduised him otherwise, lest by such crueltie, the barons in any like case should be occasioned to vse the same extremitie towards such of his people, as by chance might fall into their hands. Thus the king spa [...]ed the Nobles and gentlemen, sending William de Albenie, Wil|liam de Lancaster, William de Emeford, Thomas de Muleton, Osbert Giff [...]d, Os [...]ert de Bobie, Odi|nell de Albenie, and diuerse other to the castell of Corfe, there to be kept as prisoners. But Robert Charme, Richard Gifford, and Thomas de Lincolne were sent to Notingham, and so other were sent to other places. As for all the demilances or yeomen (if I shall so call them) and the arcubalisters which had slaine manie of his men during the siege (as Mat|thew Paris saith) the king caused them to be hanged,A [...]cubalisters those y^ [...] beare cr [...]ss [...]bowes. to put other in feare that should so obstinatlie resist him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Neuerthelesse as the booke that belonged to Berne| [...]ell abbie saith) there was not any of them hanged, [...] sauing one arcubalister onelie, whome the king had brought vp top a child. But howsoeuer the king dealt with them after they were yéelded, true it is (as by the same booke it appeareth there had beene no siege in those daies more earnestlie inforced, nor more ob|stinatlie defended: for after that all the limmes of the castell had beene reuersed and throwne downe, they kept the maister tower, till halfe thereof was also ouerthrowne, and after kept the other halfe, till through famine they were constreined to yéeld, ha|uing nothing but horsseflesh and water to susteine their liues withall.