Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 None of the frier minors went, bicause they would not be the bringers of so heauie tidings, sith he had euer borne them great good will. The bishops of Winchester and Lincolne went before, and com|ming to Killingworth, associated with them the earle of Leicester, of some called the earle of Lancaster, that had the king in kéeping. And hauing secret con|ference with the king, they sought to frame his mind, so as he might be contented to resigne the crowne to his sonne, bearing him in hand, that if he refused so to doo, the people in respect of the euill will which they had conceiued against him, would not faile but pro|céed to the election of some other that should happilie not touch him in linage. And s [...]th this was the onlie meane to bring the land in quiet, they willed him to consider how much he was bound in conscience to take that waie that should be so beneficiall to the whole realme.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king being sore troubled to heare such displea|sant newes, was brought into a maruelous agonie: but in the end, for the quiet of the realme and doubt of further danger to himselfe, he determined to fol|low their a [...]uise, and so when the other commissio|ners were come, and that the bishop of Hereford had declared the cause where [...] were sent, the king in presence of them all, notwithstanding his out|ward countenance discouered how much it inward|lie grieued him; yet after [...] [...]as come [...] himselfe, he answered that he [...] that he was [...] into this miserie through his owne offensed, Rich. [...] and therefore EEBO page image 341 he was contented patientlie to suffer it, but yet it could not (he said) but gréene him, that he had in such wise runne into the hatred of all his people: not|withstanding he gaue the lords most heartie thanks, that they had so forgotten their receiued iniuries,The kings answer. and ceassed not to beare so much good will towards his sonne Edward, as to wish that he might reigne ouer them. Therefore to satisfie them, sith otherwise it might not be, he vtterlie renounced his right to the kingdome, and to the whole administration thereof. And lastlie he besought the lords now in his miserie to forgiue him such offenses as he had committed against them. Ah lamentable ruine from roialtie to miserable calamitie, procured by them chéefelie that should haue beene the pillers of the kings estate, and not the hooked engins to pull him downe from his throne! So that here we see it verefied by triall, that

—miser at infoelix est etiam rex,

Nec quenquam (mihi crede) facit diadema beatum.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The ambassadours with this answer returning to London, Polydor. declared the same vnto all the states, in or|der as they had receiued it, whervpon great ioy was made of all men, to consider that they might now by course of law proceed to the choosing of a new king. And so thervpon the nine and twentith day of Ianu|arie in session of parlement then at Westminster assembled, was the third king Edward, sonne to king Edward the second, chosen and elected king of England, by the authoritie of the same parlement, first (as before is said) confirmed by his fathers resig|nation: and the first day of his reigne they agréed to be the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie, in the yeare 1326 after the account of the church of England, be|ginning the yeare the fiue & twentith day of March, but by the common account of writers, Merimuth. it was in the yeare 1327. ¶ On the same daie sir William Trus|sell procurator for the whole parlement did renounce the old king in name of the whole parlement, with all homages and fealties due to him, so that the same fiue and twentith day of Ianuarie hath béene repu|ted and taken for the first day of the beginning of king Edward the third his reigne, so that whatsoe|uer chanced before that day, is ascribed to be doone during the reigne of his father.