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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this season also billes were set vp in diuerse places of London; and on the doore of Paules church, in which was conteined,k. Richard still aliue as was [...]eigned. that king Richard being a|line and in health, would come shortlie with great magnificence & power to recouer againe his king|dome but the contriuer of this deuise was quicklie found out, apprehended, and punished according to his demerits. ¶ The citie of London this yeare in the summer was so infected with pestilent mortali|tie, that the king durst not repaire thither, nor come neere to it. Whervpon he being at the castell of Leeds in Kent, and departing from thence, tooke ship at Quinburgh in the Ile of Shepie to saile ouer vnto Lée in Essex, and so to go to P [...]aschie, there to passe the time till the mortalitie was ceassed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 As he was vpon the sea, certeine French pirats which laie lurking at the Thames mouth to watch for some preie,The king in danger to be taken by French pi|rats. got knowledge by some meanes (as was supposed) of the kings passage, and therevpon as he was in the middest of his course, they entred among his fléet, and tooke foure vessels next to the kings ship, and in one of the same vessels sir Thomas Rampston the kings vicechamberlaine,Sir Thomas Rampston ta|ken. with all his chamber stuffe and apparell. They followed the king so néere, that if his ship had not béene swift, he had landed sooner in France than in Essex: but such was his good hap,

The king es|caped through swiftnesse of his ship.

The lord Ca|mois put in blame.

that he escaped and arriued at his ap|pointed port. The lord Camois, that was comman|ded with certeine ships of warre to waft the king o|uer (whether the wind turned so that he could not kéepe his direct course, or that his ship was but a slug) ran so far in the kings displeasure, that he was attached & indited, for that (as was surmized against him) he had practised with the Frenchmen, that the king might by them haue béene taken in his passage.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Yee haue heard that the pope by vertue of his pro|uision had giuen the archbishoprike of Yorke vnto maister Robert Halom; but the king was so offen|ded therewith, that the said Robert might in no wise inioy that benefice, and so at length, to satisfie the kings pleasure,Henrie Bow|et archbishop of Yorke. maister Henrie Bowet was trans|lated from Bath vnto Yorke, and maister Robert Halom was made bishop of Salisburie then void by remoouing of Henrie Chichellie to S. Dauids. The lord Henrie prince of Wales this yeare in the sum|mer season besieged the castell of Abiruscwith, and constreined them within to compound with him vn|der certeine conditions for truce;Abiruscwith. but the prince was no sooner from thence departed,Owen Glen|douer. but that Owen Glendouer by subtill craft entered the castell, put out the kéepers, and charging them with treason for con|cluding an agréement without his consent, placed other in that fortresse to defend it to his vse.

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