Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About this season, or somewhat before, about Mid|summer (as Southwell saith) a naughtie fellow called Iohn Poidras, or (as some books haue) Ponderham, a tanners son of Excester commmig to Oxford, and there thrusting himselfe into the kings hall that stood without the wals, gaue foorth that he was sonne and right heire of king Edward the first, and that by means of a false nursse he was stolne out of his cra|dle, and this Edward the second being a carters son was brought in and laid in his place, so that he by reason thereof was afterwards hardlie fostered and brought vp in the north part of Wales. At length be|ing laid for, he fled to the church of the white friers in Oxford, trusting there to be safe through the immuni|tie of the place, bicause king Edward the first was their founder. But when he could not keepe his toong, but still fondlie vttered his follie, and stood in his opi|nion, so that great rumor thereof was raised, he was at length taken out of that church, & caried to North|hampton, where he was there arreigned, condem|ned, and had foorth to a place in the countrie called the copped oke, where he was drawne, hanged, and as a traitour bowelled. At the houre of his death he con|fessed, that in his house he had a spirit in likenesse of a cat, which amongst other things assured him that he should be king of England.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this season, to wit, in the yeare 1319, a great murreine and death of cattell chanced through the whole realme, spreading from place to place, Murren of cattell. but spe|ciallie this yeare it reigned most in the north, where as in the yeares before it began in the south parts. The king desirous to be reuenged of the Scots, Anno Reg. 1 [...]. made preparation to leuie a mightie armie; and for want of sufficient numbers of men in other places to|wards the north parts, the king caused much people to come vnto him out of the south and east parts of the realme, amongst the which the citie of London was constreined to find at their costs and charges two hundred men, sending them to Yorke, where the generall assemblie of the armie was made. From thence, after he had receiued his men from sundrie countries and good townes of his realme, he went to Berwike, & laid siege to the towne.The king go|eth to Ber|wike. In which meane time the Scots being assembled, came to the bor|ders, passed by the English host, and entring into England, came in secreet wise downe into the mar| [...]hes of Yorkeshire, and there slue the people,The Scots come into t [...] parts of Yorke. and rob|bed them in most cruell wise.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Wherefore the archbishop of Yorke, meaning in time of such necessitie to doo his indeuour in defense of his countrie, assembled such power as he could get togither, of clearkes, moonks, canons, and other spi|rituall men of the church, with husbandmen and such other vnapt people for the warres: and thus with a great number of men, and see to warlike or discréet chéefeteins, he togither with the bishop of Elie, as then lord chancellour, came foorth against the Scots, Auesburie. and incountred with them at a place called Mitton vpon Suale, the twelfth day of October. Here as the Englishmen passed ouer the water of Suale, the Scots set fire vpon certeine stacks of haie, The disco [...]ture of Mit|ton vpon Suale. Caxton. the smoke whereof was so huge, that the Englishmen might not see where the Scots laie. And when the Englishmen were once got ouer the water, the Scots came vpon them with a wing in a good order of battell, in fashion like to a sheeld, egerlie assailing thier enimies, who for lacke of good gouernement were easilie beaten downe and discomfited, without shewing any great resistance: so that there were slaine to the number EEBO page image 324 [...] EEBO page image 325 number of two thousand and the residue shamefullie put to flight. Polydor.