Compare 1577 edition: 1 For first they considered,The perpl [...]tie in which the barons stood. that the renouncing of their promised faith vnto Lewes, whome they had sworne to mainteine as king of England, should be a great reproch vnto them: and againe they well saw that to continue in their obedience towards him, should bring the realme in great danger, sith it would be hard for any louing agréement to continue betwéene the French & Englishmen, their natures being so contrarie. Thirdlie, they stood somewhat in feare of the popes cursse, pronounced by his legat, both against Lewes and all his partakers. Albeit on the other side, to reuolt vnto king Henrie, though the loue which they did beare to their countrie, and the great towardnesse which they saw in him greatlie mooued them; yet sith by reason of his yoong yeares, he was not able either to follow the wars himselfe, or to take counsell what was to be doone in publike go|uernement, they iudged it a verie dangerous case. For whereas in wars nothing can be more expedi|ent than to haue one head, by whose appointment all things may be gouerned: so nothing can be more hurtfull than to haue manie rulers, by whose autho|ritie things shall passe and be ordered.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Wherefore these considerations sta [...]ed and kept one part of the English lords still in obedience to Lewes, namelie, for that diuerse of the confederats thought that it stood not with their honours so to for|sake him, till they might haue some more honorable colour to reuolt from their promises, or that the mat|ter should be taken vp by some indifferent agrée|ment to be concluded out of hand betwixt them. Her|vpon EEBO page image 199 they resorted in like maner vnto London, and there with Lewes tooke councell what was to be doone with their businesse touching the whole state of their cause. ¶Here ye shall note, that before the con|cluding of this last truce, Fouks de Brent the cap|teine of the castell of Bedford gat togither a num|ber of souldiers out of the garrisons [...] the castels of Oxford, Northampton, Bedford, and Windsor, and comming with them to S. Albons the 22 of Februa|rie,S. Albons destroied. he spoiled the towne & abbie, in like maner as he had doone all the townes and villages by the way as he passed through the countrie, from Bedford vnto S. Albons.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The messengers which Lewes had remaining in the court of Rome, signified vnto him about the same time, that except he departed out of England, the sentence of excommunication, which Gualo or Walo the legat had pronounced against him, should be confirmed by the pope on Maundie thursdaie next insuing. Wherevpon Lewes was the more inclined to yéeld to the truce before mentioned, that he might in the meane time go ouer into France to his fa|ther, who had most earnestlie written and sent in commandement to him, that in any wise he should returne home to talke with him, and so about mid|lent after the truce was concluded, he prepared him|selfe, and sailed ouer into France, and as Polydor saith (but with what authoritie I know not) the king of Scots went also with him.