Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In like manner, all the fortresses, townes, and ca|stels in the south parts of the realme were subdued vnto the obeisance of Lewes (the castels of Douer and Windsore onelie excepted) Within a little while after, Will. de Mandeuille, Robert Fitz Walter, and William de Huntingfield, with a great power of men of warre, did the like vnto the countries of Essex and Suffolke. In which season, king Iohn for|tified the castels of Wallingford,Castels forti|fi [...]d by king Iohn. Corse, Warham, Bristow, the Uies, and diuerse others with muniti|on and vittels. About which time letters came also vnto Lewes from his procurators, whom he had sent to the pope, by the tenor whereof he was aduertised, that notwithstanding all that they could doo or say, the pope meant to excommunicate him, and did but onelie staie till he had receiued some aduertisement from his legat Gualo.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The chéefest points (as we find) that were laid by Lewes his procurators against king Iohn were these,The points wherewith king Iohn was charged. that by the murther committed in the person of his nephue Arthur, he had béene condemned in the parlement chamber, before the French king, by the péeres of France, and that being summoned to ap|peare, he had obstinatelie refused so to doo, and there|fore had by good right forfeited not onelie his lands within the precinct of France, but also the realme of England, which was now due vnto the said Lewes as they alledged, in right of the ladie Blanch his wife, daughter to Elianor quéene of Spaine. But the pope refelled all such allegations as they produ|ced for proofe hereof, & seemed to defend king Iohns cause verie pithilie; but namelie, in that he was vn|der the protection of him as supreme lord of Eng|land: againe, for that he had taken vpon him the crosse (as before yée haue heard.) But now to re|turne where we left.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the feast of saint Margaret, Lewes with the lords came againe to London, at whose com|ming, the tower of London was yeelded vp to him by appointment, after which the French capteins and gentlemen, thinking themselues assured of the realme, began to shew their inward dispositions and hatred toward the Englishmen,The French men begin to shew them|selues in their kind. I [...]en. sat. 9. and forgetting all former promises (such is the nature of strangers, and men of meane estate, that are once become lords of their desires, according to the poets words,

Asperius nihil est humili cùm surgit in altum)