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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The Londoners hauing the tower thus at their commandement, remooued all the officers therein placed by the king, and put other in their roomes, in the name of the lord Iohn de Eltham the kings son, whom they named warden of the citie and land. And yet they ceassed not to commit manie robberies & o|ther outragious & most insolent parts. In the meane time, the king being come to Bristow, left that citie in the kéeping of the earle of Winchester. And with the earles of Glocester and Arundell, and the lord chancellor sir Robert Baldocke,The king sailed in [...] Wales. he sailed ouer into Wales, there to raise a power of Welshmen in de|fense of himselfe against the quéene and hir adhe|rents, which he had good hope to find amongest the EEBO page image 339 Welshmen, Polydor. His fauour towards the Welshmen. bicause he had euer vsed them gentlie, and shewed no rigor towards them for their riotous misgouernance. Againe, he drew the rather into that part, that if there were no remedie, he might easilie escape ouer into Ireland, and get into some moun|teine-countrie, marish-ground, or other streict, where his enimies should not come at him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But now to speake of the queene, yée most vnder|stand, that after she had receiued knowledge from the Londoners, that they were wholie at hir deuoti|on,The quéene following the king commeth to Oxenford. Tho. de la Mo [...]e. she being glad thereof, turned hir iournie toward Wales to follow the king, and comming to Oxen|ford, staied there a while, and still came people to hir from all sides. Héere Adam de Torleton the bishop of Hereford, which latelie before had beene sore fined by the king, for that he was accused to stirre the peo|ple to rebellion, and to aid the barons (as yée haue heard) made a pithie oration to the armie,The bishop of Hereford maketh an oration to the quéenes armie. declaring that the queene and hir sonne were returned onelie into England, to the intent to persecute the Spen|sers, & reforme the state of the realme. And sith then that they now were come in maner to an end of the tyrannie of most naughtie men, and of the danger that might growe dailie thereof, he exhorted them with patient minds to beare the small trauell that remained in pursuit of the enimies; and as for re|ward, they might looke for all things by the victorie, and the quéenes liberalitie, whose loue was such to|wards the common-wealth, as she onelie applied all hir endeuours and dooings to the aduancement thereof.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The quéene goeth to Glocester.These words spoken, the queene accompanied with a great power, departed from Oxenford, and went straight vnto Glocester, and sent before hir vn|to Bristow the earle of Kent, the kings brother, sir Iohn of Hennegew, with other, to take the earle of Winchester. They did their endeuour with such dili|gence, that the townesmen, compounding to be sa|ued harmlesse in bodie and goods, deliuered the towne and castell vnto the quéene, & to hir sonne the prince. In the meane time, there came to the quéene at Glo|cester, the lord Percie, the lord Wake, and diuerse o|ther, as well from the north parts, as foorth of the marches of Wales, so that hir armie hugelie increased.

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