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.

Henrie the third, the eldest sonne of king Iohn.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 _HEnrie, the third of that name, the eldest sonne of K. Iohn, a child of the age of nine yeres, began his reigne ouer the realme of England the ninetéenth day of Octo|ber, Anno Reg. 1. in the yeare of our Lord 1216, in the seuenth yeare of the emperour Frederike the second, and in the 36 yeare of the reigne of Philip the second king of France.