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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Cloked malice bursteth out.Then began the displeasure betwéene the king and his barons to appeare, which had béene long kept se|cret, diuers of whom assembling togither in the mar|ches of Wales,The barons raise people. gathered vnto them a power of men, and sent a letter vnto the king, vnder the seale of sir Roger Clifford,The lord Clifford. beséeching him to haue in remem|brance his oth and manifold promises made for the obseruing of the statutes ordeined at Oxford. But although this letter was indited and written verie effectuallie, yet receiued they no answer from the king, who minded in no wise to obserue the same sta|tutes, as by euident takens it was most apparant. Wherevpon they determined to attempt by force to bring their purpose to passe.Chron. Dun. The king and the quéene for their more safegard got them into the towre of London, and prince Edward laie at Clerkenwell, but in such necessitie and discredit for monie, that nei|ther had they any store to furnish their wants, nei|ther was there any man that would trust them with a groat.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Prince Edward not able to abide such dishonor, in the feast of the apostle Peter and Paule,Prince Ed|ward taketh monie out of ye treasurie of the temple. taking with him Robert Waleran, and certeine others, went to the new temple, and there easling for the kée|per of the treasure-house, as if he meant to see his mothers iewels, that were laid vp there, to be safelie kept, he entred into the house, and breaking the cof|fers of certeine persons that had likewise brought their monie thither, to haue it in more safetie, he tooke away from thence the value of 1000 pounds.

Mars. lib. 11. Hor. lib. car. 3. ode 24. —ô quantum cogit egestas
Magnum pauperies opprobrium iubet
Quiduis & facere & pati,
Virtutisque viam deserit arduae.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The citizens of London were so offended herewith that they rose in armour against him and other of the kings councell,The Londo|ners rob the house of the lord Gray. in somuch that they assailed the lodg|ing of the lord Iohn Gray without Ludgate, and tooke out of his stables 32 horsses, and such other things as they might laie hold vpon, kéeping such stur that the lord Gray himselfe was forced to flie be|yond Fleetbridge. The like rule they kept at the house of Iohn de Passelew.

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