Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The quéene, the bishop, and others, that their tyran|nie might be hid, outlawed and banished the lord Ma|treuers, and Thomas Gourney, who flieng vnto Marcels, thrée yeares after being knowne, taken, EEBO page image 342 and brought toward England was beheaded on the sea, least he should accuse the chiefe dooers, as the bi|shop and other. Iohn Matreuers, repenting himselfe, laie long hidden in Germanie, and in the end died penitentlie. Thus was king Edward murthered, in the yeare 1327,The fond opi|nion of the ignorant peo|ple. on the 22 of September. The fame went that by this Edward the second, after his death manie miracles were wrought. So that the like opi|nion of him was conceiued as before had beene of earle Thomas of Lancaster, namelie amongst the common people. He was knowne to be of a good and courteous nature,The nature & disposition of king Edward the second. though not of most pregnant wit.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And albeit in his youth he fell into certeine light crimes, and after by the companie and counsell of e|uill men, was induced vnto more heinous vices, yet was it thought that he purged the same by repen|tance, and patientlie suffered manie reproofes, and fi|nallie death it selfe (as before ye haue heard) after a most cruell maner. He had suerlie good cause to re|pent his former trade of liuing, for by his vndiscreet and wanton misgouernance, there were headed and put to death during his reigne (by iudgement of law) to the number of 28 barons and knights, ouer and be|side such as were slaine in Scotland by his infortu|nate conduct.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 All these mischeefes and manie more happened not onlie to him, but also to the whole state of the realme, in that he wanted iudgement and prudent discretion to make choise of sage and discréet councellors, recei|uing those into his fauour, that abused the same to their priuate gaine and aduantage, not respecting the aduancement of the common-wealth, so they themselues might atteine to riches and honour, for which they onelie sought, in somuch that by their coue|tous rapine, spoile, and immoderate ambition, the hearts of the common people & nobilitie were quite estranged from the dutifull loue and obedience which they ought to haue shewed to their souereigne, going about by force to wrest him to follow their wils, and to seeke the destruction of them whome he common|lie fauoured, wherein suerlie they were worthie of blame, and to tast (as manie of them did) the deser|ued punishment for their disobedient and disloiall de|meanors. For it was not the waie which they tooke to helpe the disfigured state of the common-wealth, but rather the readie meane to ouerthrow all, as if Gods goodnesse had not béene the greater it must néeds haue come to passe, as to those that shall well consider the pitifull tragedie of this kings time it may well appeare.His issue.