Compare 1577 edition: 1 The e [...]rle of Lancaster.There was like to haue growen great variance betwixt the queene and Henrie earle of Lancaster, by reason that one sir Thomas Wither, a knight per|teining to the said earle of Lancaster, had slaine Ro|bert Holland,Robert Hol|land slaine. who had betraied sometime Thomas earle of Lancaster, and was after committed to pri|son by earle Henries means, but the queene had cau|sed him to be set at libertie, and admitted him as one of hir councell. The quéene would haue had sir Tho|mas Wither punished for the murther, but earle Henrie caused him to be kept out of the waie, so that for these causes and other, Henrie the earle of Lanca|ster went about to make a rebellion,The archbi|shop of Can|turburie was the chiefe pro|curor of the agreement & reconciliation of the earle (as Meri|muth saith.) and the quéene hauing knowledge thereof, sought to apprehend him: but by the mediation of the earles Marshall and Kent, the matter was taken vp, and earle Henrie had the kings peace granted him for the summe of eleuen thousand pounds, which he should haue paid, but he neuer paid that fine, though it was so assessed at the time of the agreement.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 There were diuerse lords and great men that were confederat with him, Adam Meri|muth. the lord Thomas Wake, the lord Henrie Beaumont, the lord Foulke Fitz Warrein, sir Thomas Rosselin, sir William Trus|sell, and other, to the number of an hundred knights. ¶ In the third yeare of his reigne,1 [...]29 Anno Reg. 3. about the Ascen|sion tide, king Edward went ouer into France, and comming to the French king Philip de Ualois, as then being at Amiens, did there his homage vnto him for the duchie of Guien (as in the French historie appeareth.) ¶ The same yeare Simon the archbishop of Canturburie held a synod at London, wherein all those were excommunicated that were guiltie to the death of Walter Stapleton bishop of Excester, that had béene put to death by the Londoners, as in the last kings time ye haue heard. ¶ This bishop of Ex|cester founded Excester colledge in Oxford, & Harts hall. But now to the purpose.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king about the beginning, or (as other saie) a|bout the middle of Lent, Tho. Wals [...]. Ri. Southwell. Additions to Meri. held a parlement at Win|chester, during the which, Edmund of Woodstoke earle of Kent the kings vncle was arrested the mor|row after saint Gregories day, and being arreigned vpon certeine confessions and letters found about him, he was found giltie of treason. There were di|uerse in trouble about the same matter, for the earle vpon his open confession before sundrie lords of the realme, declared that not onelie by commandement from the pope, but also by the setting on of diuerse nobles of this land (whome he named) he was persua|ded to indeuour himselfe by all waies and meanes possible how to deliuer his brother king Edward the second out of prison, and to restore him to the crowne, whome one Thomas Dunhed, a frier of the order of preachers in London,Thom. Dun|hed a frier. affirmed for certeine to be a|liue, hauing (as he himselfe said) called vp a spirit to vnderstand the truth thereof, and so what by counsell of the said frier, and of three other friers of the same order, Thom. Wals. he had purposed to worke some meane how to deliuer him, and to restore him againe to the king|dome. Among the letters that were found about him, disclosing a great part of his practise, some there were, which he had written and directed vnto his bro|ther the said king Edward, as by some writers it should appeare.