Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 He was of bodie well cast and strong, of a good sta|ture in heigth, well fauoured of face, with the lid of one of his eies comming downe, so as it almost co|uered the apple of the same eie. Of nature he was courteous,His conditiõs and of stomach rather noble than stout; a deuout prince and liberall towards the poore and née|die. Yet he wanted not dispraise in some points, namelie for that in ordering of things and weightie affaires, he vsed small consideration. He was also noted to be a great taker of monie by leanes, taxes, and subsidies: but there vnto he was inforced by ne|cessitie, to beare the charges of warre and other pub|like affaires, than of any couetous mind or purpose to serue his owne turne. ¶What capteins of honour among the nobilitie liued in his time, it may appeare by the course of the historie of his age.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Of sundrie learned men these we find mentioned in maister Bales centuries and others. Walter of Couentrie an historiographer: Radulphus Niger that wrote both histories and other treatises, Gerua|sius de Melkelie, Albricius of London, Robert Cur|son a man excellentlie learned both in diuine and hu|maine letters, so that comming to the court of Rome he there grew in such estimation, that he became a cardinall, of whom we find this recorded by Matthew Westminster and Matthew Paris. [At the taking of Damiate, a citie in Aegypt, there was with Pelagi|us, the cardinall of Alba, the popes legat, master Ro|bert Curson an Englishman a most famous clerke, borne of a noble house, and cardinall of the church of Rome.] These are reported to florish in the daies both of king Iohn and king Henrie his sonne.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the said kings time also there liued other lear|ned men, as these; Hugh Kirkestéed, Richard of Elie, Peter Henham, Iohn Giles or de Sancto Egidio an excellent physician, Caducan a Welshman borne and bishop of Bangor, Alexander a singular learned man that wrote diuerse and manie treatises aswell in diuinitie as philosophie and humanitie, both in verse and prose; also Stephan Langton, that for his singular knowledge was made high chancel|lor of the vniuersitie of Paris, and at length was ad|mitted archbishop of Canturburie, against the will of king Iohn, in which quarell so great trouble insu|ed, as before yée haue partlie heard; Rafe Coggeshall also liued in king Henries daies, that wrote the ap|pendix vnto the chronicle of Ralfe Niger, he was abbat of Coggeshall abbeie in Essex, whereof he tooke his surname; William Lanthonie, Peter of S. Sauior, a canon of the house called S. Sauior, or of the trinitie by London; Alexander Hailes a fri|er of the order of the minors, who wrote manie trea|tises in diuinitie; Richard surnamed Medicus a most learned physician, and no lesse expert in philosophie and the mathematicals. There be also remembred by maister Bale, Randulfe the earle of Chester, the third and last of that name, who hauing great knowledge and vnderstanding in the lawes of this land, compi|led a booke of the same lawes, as a witnesse of his great skill therein: Alexander Wendocke bishop of Chester, Iohn Blund, Edmund Rich, Robert Rich, Henrie Bracton, that excellent lawier, who wrote the booke commonlie called Bracton after his name, in|tituled De consuetudinibus Anglicanis; Richard surna|med Theologus, Walter de Euesham, Ralfe Fres|borne, Laurence Somercote, brother as it is thought to Robert Somercote, at that time a cardinall of the Romane church; Nicholas Fernham a physician, Robert Bacon a notable diuine, Simon Langton, brother to the archbishop of Canturburie Stephan Langton; Richard Fisaker, Simon Stokes, Iohn of Kent or Kantianus, William Shirwood, Michaell Blaunpaine, Iohn Godard, Uincent of Couentrie, Alberike Ueer, Richard Wich, Iohn Basing aliàs de Basingstoke, Roger Walsham, William Sening|ham, Robert Grosted that learned bishop of Lin|colne, whose memorie amongst the learned will re|maine while the world lasteth.