Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Iohn Lacie the sonne of the said Roger married Alice the daughter of Gilbert de Aquila, and after hir deceasse, he married the ladie Margaret, the daughter of Robert Quincie earle of Lincolne, of whom he begat Edmund Lacie constable of Chester, which Edmund after the deceasse of his father, mar|ried Alice the daughter of the marquesse of Saluces in Italie, which ladie was surnamed the quéene, of whom he begat Henrie Lacie earle of Lincolne, which Henrie married the ladie Margaret, daughter to William Long espee earle of Salisburie, by whom he had two sons, Edmund and Iohn, and two daugh|ters, Alice and Ioan, which Alice Thomas earle of Lancaster married, who claimed and had the same rights and priuiledges which ancientlie belonged to the said Roger Lacie, and other the constables of Chester, concerning the fines of forreners and o|thers. ¶This haue I the more willingly declared, that it may appeare in what estimation and credit the La|cies constables Chester by inheritance liued in their time, of whose high valiancie, and likewise of other of that familie, highlie commended for their noble chi|ualrie in martiall enterprises ye may read in sun|drie histories at large.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now to returne and speake of other dooings, which chanced about the time in which the said Ra|nulfe earle of Chester departed this life. The king in the meane while seized into his hands a great portion of the treasure which Hubert de Burgh earle of Kent had committed to the kéeping of the templers. But whereas there were that trauelled to haue had him put to death, the king in respect of the seruice which he had doone to him and to his predecessors king Ri|chard and king Iohn, granted him life, with those sands which he had either by purchase, or by gift of king Iohn,The earle of Kent kept in prison within the castell of Uées. but neuertheles he caused him to be kept in frée prison at the castell of the Uées, vnder the cu|stodie of foure knights belonging to the earles of Cornewall, Warren, Penbroke, and Ferrers, which foure earles were become suerties for him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 This yeare also about the same time, to wit, Matth. Paris. A great thun|der. the morow after S. Martins daie, chanced great thun|der and lightning, which continued for the space of 15 daies togither, to the great terrour and feare of the people, and namelie of the Londoners, which haue that kind of weather so familiar to them, that if there be anie abroad in the land, they haue their part there|of. Moreouer on the 23 of March, was heard an o|ther great and terrible tempest of thunder,A wet sum|mer. and after followed a maruellous wet summer with manie flouds. Also on the 8 daie of Aprill, in the parts a|bout Hereford and Worcester,Foure summer beside the ac|customed sun. there appeared foure sunnes in the element, beside the naturall sunne, of red colour, and a great circle of christaline colour, the which compassed with his largenesse as it had béene the whole circuit almost of the whole realme of Eng|land, Matth. Paris. from the sides whereof went foorth certeine halfe circles, in whose sections appeared the said foure sunnes. The naturall sunne was at the same time in the east part of the firmament, for it was about the first houre of the daie, or betwixt six and seuen in the morning, the aire being the same time verie bright and cleare. The bishop of Hereford, and sir Iohn Monmouth knight, and manie others beheld this woonderfull sight, and testified the same to be most true. Matth. Paris. And after this there followed the same yeare in those parts cruell warre, slaughter, terrible bloud|shed, & a generall trouble through England, Wales, and Ireland. About the same time, to wit, in Iune,A strange woonder. in the south parts of England néere to the sea coast, two huge dragons appeared fighting in the aire, and after a long fight the one ouercome the other, and fol|lowed him, fléeing into the depth of the sea, & so they were séene no more.