Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 It was not long after the finishing of this parle|ment,Contention betwixt the earles of Lei|cester and Glocester. but that strife and variance began to kindle betwéene the king and the earles of Leicester and Glocester, by reason of such officers as the said earles had remooued, and put others in their roomes: a|mong the which Iohn Mansell was discharged of his office, and sir Hugh Bigod, brother to earle Mar|shall, admitted in his roome. Also bicause the fore|said gouernours had knowledge that the king min|ded not to performe the ordinances established at Oxford, they thought to make their part as strong as was possible for them to doo, and therefore vpon the morrow after the feast of Marie Magdalene,The lords come to the Guildhall to haue their or|dinances con|firmed. the king as then being at Westminster, the earle Mar|shall, the earle of Leicester, and diuerse other came to the Guildhall of London, where the maior and al|dermen, with the commons of the citie were assem|bled, and there the lords shewed the instrument or writing sealed with the kings seale, and with the seales of his sonne prince Edward, and of manie o|ther lords of the land, conteining the articles of those ordinances which had béene concluded at Oxford, willing the maior and aldermen to set also therevn|to their common seale of the citie. The maior and al|dermen vpon aduise amongst them taken, required respit till they might know the kings pleasure there|in, but the lords were so earnest in the matter, and made such instance, that no respit could be had; so that in the end the common seale of the citie was put to that writing, and the maior with diuerse of the citie sworne to mainteine the same, their allegiance saued to the king, with their liberties and franchi|ses, according to the accustomed manner.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Upon the ninth day of August, proclamation was made in diuerse places of the citie,A proclama|tion against purue [...]ers. that none of the kings takers should take any thing within the citie, without the will of the owner, except two tunnes of wine, which the king accustomablie had of euerie ship comming from Burdeaux, paieng but 40 shil|lings for the tun. By meanes of this proclamation, nothing was taken by the kings officers within the citie and liberties of the same, except readie paiment were made in hand, which vse continued not long. Herevpon the king held a parlement at Westmin|ster, and another at Winchester,A parlement. or else proroged and remoued the same thither. Also sir Hugh Bigod lord chéefe iustice, with Roger Turksey, and other cal|led Itinerarij, kept the terme for plées at saint Saui|ours: for you must vnderstand,The iustices sit at S· Sa|uiours. that in those daies they were kept in diuerse places of the realme, which now are holden altogither at Westminster, and iud|ges ordeined to kéepe a circuit, as now they kéepe the assises in time of vacation.Bailiffes and other officers punished. The foresaid iudges sit|ting on that maner at saint Sauiours, punished bai|liffes, and other officers verie extremelie, which were conuict afore them for diuerse trespasses, and special|lie for taking of merciaments otherwise than law gaue them. After this, the same sir Hugh came vnto the Guildhall, and there sat in iudgement,Bakers pu|nished. and kept plees without order of law; yea contrarie to the liber|ties of the citie, he punished bakers for lacke of true size, by the tumbrell; where before they were punished by the pillorie, & manie other things he vsed after such manner, more by will than good order of law.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 There was a bruite raised (whether of truth or o|therwise we leaue to the credit of the authors) that the Poictouins had practised to poison the most part of the English nobilitie. Matth. Paris. The Poicto|uins suspected to haue poi|soned y^e Eng|lish lords. Indéed diuers of them were greeuouslie tormented with a certeine disease of swelling and breaking out, some died, and othersome verie hardlie escaped, of which number the earle of Glocester was one, who laie sicke a long time at Sunning a place besides Reading. At length he re|couered: but his brother William died of the same disease, and vpon his death-bed laid the fault to one Walter Scotenie, as the occasioner of his death, which afterwards cost the said Walter his life. For although he was one of the chéefe councellors, and steward also to the said earle of Glocester, yet being had in suspicion, and thervpon apprehended and char|ged with that crime, when in the yeare next follow|ing in Iune he came to be arreigned at Winche|ster, and put himselfe to be tried by a iurie,Walter Sco|tonie arreig|ned and con|demned. the same pronounced him guiltie: and when those that were impanneled vpon that iurie were asked by the iud|ges how they vnderstood that he should be giltie, they answered, bicause that where the said Walter was neuer indebted, that they could heare of, either to William de Ualence, or to any of his brethren, they were fullie certified that he had late receiued no EEBO page image 260 small sum of monie of the said W. de Ualence to poi|son both his maister and other of the English nobili|tie as was to be thought, sith there was no other ap|parant cause why he should receiue such a gift at the hands of their enimie the said William de Ualence, and so was the said Walter executed at Winche|ster aforesaid.He suffereth.