Compare 1577 edition: 1 The haruest was verie late this yeare, so that the most part of the corne rotted on the ground,A late haruest and that which at length was got in, remained yet abrode till after Alhallowentide, so vntemperate was the wea|ther, with excessiue wet and raine beyond all mea|sure.Dearth of corne increa|seth. Herevpon the dearth so increased, that euen those which had of late releeued other, were in danger to starue themselues. Finallie solemne fasts and ge|nerall processions were made in diuerse places of the realme to appease Gods wrath,Fasts & pro|cessions vsed. and (as it was thought) their praiers were heard, for the weather partlie amended, and by reason the same serued to get in some such corne as was not lost, the price there|of in the market fell halfe in halfe. A good and memo|rable motiue, that in such extremities as are aboue the reach of man to redresse, we should by and by haue recourse to him that can giue a remedie a|gainst euerie casualtie. For

Flectitur iratus voce rogante Deus.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Richard Gray the chattellaine of Douer looking diligentlie vnto his charge,Richard Gray lord warden of the ports. tooke a thousand marks which the bishop of Winchester had sent thither to haue beene transported ouer into France. Erlotus the popes Nuncio perceiuing the trouble that was like to insue within the realme would no longer ta|rie,Erlotus the popes Nuncio returneth houie. but wiselie departed and got him home. Herewith certeine wise personages were sent to Rome on the part of the king and baronage, to informe the pope in what state the realme stood, and to giue him to vnder|stand how gréeuouslie the people had beene handled by the practise of certeine Romane prelats promo|ted in this land.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This yeare neere to Carmardin Patrike of Chau|ton lord of Kedwelli, Matth. Paris. The lord of Kedwellie slaine. Hugh de Uiun, and diuerse other both horsmen and footmen were slaine through treason by the Welshmen: yet it should appeare by Matthew Paris that the Englishmen procured this mischéefe to light on their owne heads, Matth. Paris. through their disloiall dealing. For where they were come to the place to talke of an agréement, some of the marchers supposing they had béene too strong for the Welsh|men, persuaded the said lord of Kedwellie to assaile them vpon the sudden, in hope to haue destroied them all: but in the end the Englishmen were di|stressed through the valiancie of Dauid one of the sonnes of the great Leolin and other capteines of the Welsh nation. Neuerthelesse Matthew Westmin|ster saith brieflie, that the English men were treaso|nablie slaine: so that it séemeth that Matthew Paris speaketh rather of an affection and good will which he bare to the Welsh procéedings in those daies, than otherwise.