Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The lords were shortlie aduertised of the louing consent which the commons frankelie and fréelie had giuen. Whervpon incontinentlie, they all with a con|uenient number of the most substantiall commons repaired to the erle at Bainards castell, making iust and true report of their election and admission, and the louing assent of the commons. The earle, after long pausing, first thanked God of his great grace and benefit towards him shewed; then the lords and commons for their fauour and fidelitie: notwith|standing, like a wise prince, he alleged his insuffi|ciencie for so great a roome and weightie burthen, as lacke of knowledge, want of experience, and diuerse other qualities to a gouernour apperteining. But yet in conclusion, being persuaded by the archbishop of Canturburie, the bishop of Excester,The earle of March ta|keth vpon him as king. and other lords then present, he agréed to their petition, and tooke vp|on him the charge of the kingdome, as forfeited to him by breach of the couenants established in par|lement.

¶Thus farre touching the tragicall state of this land vnder the rent regiment of king Henrie, Abr. Flem. who (besides the bare title of roialtie and naked name of king) had little apperteining to the port of a prince. For whereas the dignitie of princedome standeth in souereigntie; there were of his nobles that im|becilled his prerogatiue by sundrie practises, spe|ciallie by maine force; as seeking either to suppresse, or to exile, or to obscure, or to make him awaie: other|wise what should be the meaning of all those fough|ten fields from time to time, most miserablie falling out both to prince, péere, and people? As at saint Al|bons, at Bloreheath, at Northampton, at Banberie, at Barnet, & at Wakefield; to the effusion of much bloud, and pulling on of manie a plage, which other|wise might haue béene aucided. All which battels, to|gither with those that were tried betweene Edward the fourth, after his inthronization; and Henrie the sixt after his extermination (as at Exham, Donca|ster, and Teukesburie) are remembred by Anglorum praelia in good order of pithie poetrie, as followeth:

Nobilitata inter plures haec sunt loca caede,

Albani fanum, Blorum, borealis & Ampton,

Banbrecum campis, Barnettum collibus haerens,

Wakefield. Experrectorum pagus, fanúm se [...]undò

Albani, propior Scoticis confinibus Exam,

Contiguó istis habitantes rure coloni,

Moerentes hodie, quoties proscindit arator

Arua propinqua locis dentale reuellere terra

Semisepulta virûm sulcis Cerealibus ossa:

Moesta execrantur planctu ciuile duellum,

Quo periere [...]ominum plus centum millia caesa,

Nobile Todcastrum clades accepta coegit

EEBO page image 662Millibus enectis ter denis nomen habere.

Vltima postremae locus est Teuxburia pugnae,

Oppidulis his accedens certissima testis,

Bello intestino sluuios fluxisse cruoris.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now before we procéed anie further, sith the reigne of king Henrie maie séeme here to take end, we will specifie some such learned men as liued in his time. Iohn Leland, surnamed the elder (in re|spect of the other Iohn Leland, that painefull anti|quarie of our time) wrote diuerse treatises, for the instruction of grammarians; Iohn Hainton, a Carmelit or white frier (as they called them) of Lin|colne; Robert Colman, a Franciscane frier of Nor|wich, and chancellor of the vniuersitie of Oxenford; William White a priest of Kent, professing the doc|trine of Wickliffe, and forsaking the order of the Romane church, married a wife, but continued his office of preaching, till at length, in the yeare 1428, he was apprehended, and by William bishop of Nor|wich, and the doctors of the friers mendicants, char|ged with thirtie articles, which he mainteined, con|trarie to the doctrine of the Romane church, and in September the same yeare suffered death by fire.