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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Furthermore, Richard Stradley borne in the mar|ches of Wales, a moonke and a diuine, writing cer|teine treatises of the scripture; William Herbert a Welshman and a frier Minor, wrote also certeine goodlie treatises of diuinitie; Richard Coming|ton a frier of the order of the Cordeliers, a preacher, and a writer of diuinitie; William Exeter a doc|tor of diuinitie, and a prebendarie canon in Exe|ter, whereas it is thought he was borne; Lucas Bosden a westerne man, and by profession a Car|melite frier; Thomas Walleis a Dominike frier, a great diuine, as by such bookes as he wrote it may appeare; Thomas Pontius a moonke of Canturbu|rie, Iohn Ridewall a graie frier, Henrie Costesay or Cossey a frier Minor, Geffrie Aleuant borne in Yorkeshire, a frier Carmelite; Iohn Euersden, a moonke in Burie in Suffolke, an historiographer; Simon Burneston, a doctor of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge, and prouinciall of the friers Dominike or blacke friers, as they called them here in Eng|land; Walter Burlie a doctor of diuinitie, who in his youth was brought vp, not onlie in Martine college in Oxford, but also in the Uniuersities and schooles a|broad beyond the seas, in France and Germanie, & afterwards for his wisedome, good demeanor & lear|ning, he was reteined with the bishop of Ulmes in Suabenland, a region in high Germanie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Amongst other treatises which he compiled, be|ing manie, and namelie of naturall philosophie, he wrote a commentarie of the ethikes of Aristotle, and dedicated the same vnto the said bishop, a worke which hath beene highlie esteemed, not onelie in the Uniuersities of Italie, Germanie and France, but also here in our Uniuersities of England. To con|clude, such was the same of this doctor Burlie, that when the ladie Philip, daughter to the earle of Hei|nault should come ouer into England to be married to king Edward, this doctor Burlie was reteined by hir, and appointed to be hir almoner, and so conti|nued in great estimation, in so much that after Ed|ward prince of Wales, eldest sonne to king Edward commonlie called the blacke prince, was borne, and able to learne his booke, the said Burlie among o|ther was commanded to be one of his instructors.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 By reason hereof, sir Simon Burlie, of whom I haue made some mention heretofore in this kings life, and more intend to speake, as occasion serueth in the next king, being sonne to sir Iohn Burlie, néere kinsman to the said doctor Burlie, was admitted a|mong other yoong gentlemen, to be schoolefelow with the said prince, by occasion whereof he grew in such credit and fauour with the said prince, that after|wards when his son Richard of Burdeaux, that suc|céeded king Edward his father, was borne, the said prince for speciall trust and confidence which he had in the said sir Simon Burlie, committed the gouer|nance & education of his son the said Richard vnto him, whereby he was euer after highlie in fauour with the said Richard, and no lesse aduanced by him, when he came to inioy the crowne of this realme.

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