Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, the pride and pretended authoritie of the cleargie he could not well abide, when they went a|bout to wrest out of his hands the prerogatiue of his princelie rule and gouernement. True it is, that to mainteine his warres which he was forced to take in hand, as well in France as elsewhere, he was con|streined to make all the shift he could deuise to reco|uer monie, and bicause he pinched their pursses, they conceiued no small hatred against him, which when he perceiued, and wanted peraduenture discretion to passe it ouer, he discouered now and then in his rage his immoderate displeasure, as one not able to bridle his affections, a thing verie hard in a stout sto|mach, and thereby missed now and then to compasse that which otherwise he might verie well haue brought to passe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 It is written, that he meant to haue become feu|darie (for maintenance sake against his owne disloi|all subiects, Matth. Paris and other his aduersaries) vnto Mira|mumeline the great king of the Saracens: but for the truth of this report I haue little to saie, and therefore I leaue the credit thereof to the authors. It is reported likewise, that in time when the realme stood interdicted, as he was abroad to hunt one day, it chanced that there was a great stag or hart killed, which when he came to be broken vp, prooued to be ve|rie fat and thicke of flesh;

Oh (saith he) what a plesant life this déere hath led, and yet in all his daies he neuer heard masse.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In his daies manie learned men liued, as Gef|frey Uinesaufe, Simon Fraxinus aliàs Ash, Ada|mus Dorensis, Gualter de Constantijs first bishop of Lincolne and after archbishop of Rouen, Iohn de Oxford, Colman surnamed Sapiens, Richard Ca|nonicus, William Peregrine, Alane Te [...]kesburie, Simon Thurnaie, Bale, who being an excellent philosopher but standing too much in his owne conceit, vpon a sudden did so forget all his knowledge in learning, that he became the most ignorant of all other, a pu|nishment (as was thought) appointed him of God, for such blasphemies as he had wickedlie vttered, both against Moses and Christ. Geruasius Dorobernen|sis, Iohn Hanwill, Nigell Woreker, Gilbert de Hoiland, Benet de Peterburgh, William Parnus a moonke of Newburgh, Roger Houeden, Hubert Walter, first bishop of Salisburie and after archbi|shop of Canturburie, Alexander Theologus, of whome yee haue heard before, Geruasius Tilberien|sis, Syluester Giraldus Cambrensis, who wrote manie treatises, Ioseph Deuonius, Walter Mapis, Radulfus de Diceto, Gilbert Legley, Mauricius Morganius, Walter Morganius, Iohn de Forde|ham, William Leicester, Ioceline Brakeland, Ro|ger of Crowland, Hugh White aliàs Candidus that wrote an historie intituled Historia Petroburgensis, Iohn de saint Omer, Adam Barking, Iohn Gray an hi|storiographer and bishop of Norwich, Walter of Couentrie, Radulphus Niger, &c. Sée Bale Scripto|rum Britanniae centuria tertia.