Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer in this yeare great variance and strife rose betwixt the king and his barons, for the king tooke great displeasure against all other his officers, & so much the more mistrusted them, Polydor. for that he found himselfe deceiued in the earle of Kent, to whom he had committed a further credit than to anie other, and had made him high iustice of England, onelie for the good will that he alwaies bare to him. There|fore perceiuing this,The king be|ginneth to fa|uour strangers. he was doubtfull whom he should trust, discharging the most part of those En|glishmen that bare any office about him, and in their roomes placed strangers, as Poictouins and Bri|tains, of the which there came ouer vnto him manie knights and other, to the number of 2000, which he placed in garrisons within castels of diuerse places of the land, and committed the order of all things for the most part to the bishop of Winchester,The bishop of Winchester. and to his nephue or sonne Peter de Riuales.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herwith he offended so much the minds of his No|bles, that Richard Marshall erle of Penbroke (chiefe of that familie, & boldest to speake,The earle of Penbroke. now that Ranulfe of Chester was gone) as well in his owne name, as in the names of other, tooke vpon him openlie to re|prooue the kings dooings herein, as pernicious and dangerous to the state of the realme.Strangers alwaies odi|ous to y^e hours borne. Herevnto the bishop of Winchester (whose counsell as it séemed he followed) made answer, that the king had doone no|thing in that behalfe vnaduisedlie, but vpon good and déepe consideration: for sith he might perceiue how the English nobilitie had first pursued his father with malicious hatred & open war, and now that he found diuerse of them whom he had brought vp and aduan|ced to high honours, vnfaithfull in the administrati|on of their offices, he did not without iust cause re|ceiue EEBO page image 217 into his fauour strangers, and preferre them before those of his owne nation, which were not so faithfull in his seruice and obedience as they.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This answer of the bishop so pricked and woun|ded the minds of the English Nobilitie, that manie of them (amongst whome the said earle of Penbroke was the chéefe) began an open rebellion, some of them resorting to one place, and some to an other, to gather people for their purpose.The lords y^t withdrew into Wales. Matth. Paris. Polydor. The names of such barons as stirred vpon this occasion were these; Ri|chard Marshall earle of Penbroke afore named, Gilbert Basset and his brethren, men of great honor and right hardie capteins: also Richard Sward a warlike personage, trained vp in feats of armes from his youth,The king pro+claimed them traitors. with Walter Clifford a worthie knight, and manie others. The king hauing know|ledge of their dooings proclaimed them all traitors, confiscated their goods,Strangers sent for. and sent for a great power of men out of Flanders to serue him in his warres.