Compare 1577 edition: 1 Upon the sixtéenth day of Iune, the kings eldest sonne named Edward,The birth of king Edward the first. and after surnamed Long|shanke by the Scots in mockage, bicause he was a tall and slender man, was borne at Westminster, who after his fathers decease, succeeded him in the kingdome. ¶Before the birth of this Edward, there appeared earlie in the morning certeine daies togi|ther before the sunne was vp, Polydor. A strange star. a star of a large com|passe, the which with swift course was caried through a long circuit of the aire, sometimes shewing as it had borne fire with it, and sometimes leauing as it were smoke behind it, so that it was after iudged, that the great déeds which were to be atchiued by the same Edward, were by this wonderfull constellati|on foreshewed and signified.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time, by reason of an accusation made by a prisoner against Ranulfe Briton (some|time the kings chancellour, but now leading a priuat life, Matth. Paris. being a canon of the cathedrall church of saint Paule in London) the same Ranulfe (by commande|ment from the king sent to the maior of the citie William Ioiner) was taken out of his house,Ranulfe Bri|ton taken out of his house, and led to the tower. had to the tower, and there imprisoned, whervpon the deane of Paules, maister G. Lucie, in absence of the bishop accurssed all those that had presumptuouslie attemp|ted to laie hands on the said Ranulfe, and further, he put his owne church of saint Paule vnder in|terdiction.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 To conclude, through threatning of excommuni|cation to be pronounced against the king, and other for this fact by the legat and the bishops of the realme as namelie, Canturburie and London, the king was compelled to release and set at libertie the fore|said Ranulfe. Finallie, the prisoner that had accused the said Ranulfe and other, being one of the kings purseuants, when for his wicked dooings he came to suffer death, openlie confessed, how he had accused those persons, onelie in hope to deferre his owne exe|cution, EEBO page image 224 being conuicted as accessarie to the treason of the clearke that suffered at Couentrie the last yeare. He had accused not onelie the said Briton, but diuers of the nobilitie also to be priuie and giltie of the same conspiracie. ¶ This yeare for the space of foure mo|neths togither,Great raine. fell excéeding great raine, yet at length it began to hold vp about Easter.