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)they did manie excessiue outrages, in spoiling and robbing the people of the countrie, without pitie or mercie. Moreouer they did not onelie breake into mens houses, but also into churches, and tooke out of the same such vessels and ornaments of gold and sil|uer, as they could laie hands vpon: for Lewes had not the power now to rule the gréedie souldiers, be|ing wholie giuen to the spoile.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 But most of all their tyrannie did appeare in the east parts of the realme, when they went through the countries of Essex, Suffolke and Northfolke, where they miserablie spoiled the townes and villages, re|ducing those quarters vnder their subiection, and making them tributaries vnto Lewes in most ser|uile and slauish manner. Furthermore,The castell of Norwich le [...]t for a prey to Lewes. at his com|ming to Norwich, he found the castell void of de|fense, and so tooke it, without any resistance, and put into it a garison of his souldiers. Also he sent a pow|er to the towne of Lin, which conquered the same, and tooke the citizens prisoners,Lin. causing them to paie great summes of monie for their ransoms. Mor|ouer, Thomas de Burgh,Thomas de Burgh taken prisoner. chateleine of the castell of Norwich, who vpon the approch of the Frenchmen to the citie, fled out in hope to escape, was taken priso|ner, and put vnder safekéeping. He was brother vnto Hubert de Burgh capteine of Douer castell.