Compare 1577 edition: 1 At length by mediation of such as were commis|sioners a truce was concluded betwixt him and the French king for fiue yeares,A truce taken for fiue years. and then he returned to|ward England, but he arriued not there till the ninth of October, although the truce was concluded in March vpon S. Gregories day: for beside other oc|casions of his staie, one chanced by such strife and de|bate as rose amongst the Gascoignes, which caused him to returne to land, that he might pacifie the same when he was alreadie imbarked, and had hoised his saile immediatlie to set forward. He left in Guien for his lieutenant one Nicholas de Mueles or Mo|les,Nicholas de Mueles his lieutenant in Gascoigne. to defend those townes, which yet remained vn|der his obeisance, for he put no great confidence in the people of that countrie, the which of custome be|ing vexed with continuall warre, were constreined not by will, but by the change of times, one while to hold on the French side, and an other while on the English. In déed the townes, namelie those that had their situation vpon the sea coastes, were so destroied and decaied in their walles and fortifications, that they could not long be any great aid to either part, and therefore being not of force to hold out, they were compelled to obeie one or other, where by their willes they would haue doone otherwise.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This was the cause that the K. of England, often|times vpon trust of these townes, which for the most part were readie to receiue him, was brought into some hope to recouer his losses, and cheefelie for that he was so manie times procured to attempt his for|tune there, at the request of the fickle-minded Poie|touins, who whilest they did seeke still to purge their offenses to the one king or to the other, they dailie by new treasons defamed their credit, and so by such means the king of England oftentimes with small aduantage or none at all, made warre against the French king, in trust of their aid, that could, or (vpon the least occasion conceiued) quickelie would doo lit|tle to his furtherance. And so thereby king Henrie as well as his father king Iohn, was oftentimes de|ceiued of his vaine conceiued hope.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this seauen and twentith yeare of king Hen|ries reigne, diuerse noble personages departed this life, and first about the beginning of Ianuarie,Death of No|ble men. de|ceassed the lord Richard de Burgh, a man of great honour and estimation in Ireland, where he held manie faire possessions, by conquest of that noble gentleman his worthie father. Also that valiant war|riour Hugh Lacie, who had conquered in his time a great part of Ireland.Hugh Lacie. Also the same yere on the sea|uenth of Maie, Hugh de Albenie earle of Arundell departed this life, in the middest of his youthfull yeares, and was buried in the priorie of Wimund|ham, which his ancestours had founded. After his deceasse, that noble heritage was diuided by partiti|on amongst foure sisters.