Compare 1577 edition: 1 But immediatlie after came the said Coniers a|gaine, with the like tale and information as he had brought before. And thus king Edward one while put in comfort, and another while discouraged, mar|ched foorth till he came to the gates of the citie, where his people staied;K. Edward commeth to Yorke. whilest he and about sixtéene or se|uentéene other such as he thought méetest, went forth and entred the citie with the said Clifford & Burgh. And (as some write) there was a priest readie to saie masse, in which masse time the king receiued the sa|crament of the communion,He receiueth an oth. & there solemnlie sware to kéepe and obserue two speciall articles: although it was farre vnlike that he minded to obserue either of them: the one was that he should vse the citizens after a gentle and courteous maner: and the other, that he should be faithfull and obedient vnto king Henries commandements.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 For this wilfull periurie (as hath béene thought) the issue of this king suffered (for the fathers of|fense) the depriuation not onelie of lands and world|lie possessions, but also of their naturall liues, by their cruell vncle K. Richard the third. [And it may well be. For it is not likelie that God, in whose hands is the bestowing of all souereigntie, will suf|fer such an indignitie to be doone to his sacred maie|stie, and will suffer the same to passe with impunitie, And suerlie, if an osh among priuate men is religi|ouslie to be kept, sith in the same is an exact triall of faith and honestie; doubtlesse of princes it is verie nicelie and preciselie to be obserued: yea they should rather susteine a blemish and disgrace in their roial|tie, than presume to go against their oth and promise, speciallie if the same stand vpon conditions of equi|tie: otherwise they prooue themselues to be impug|ners of fidelitie, which is a iewell surpassing gold in price and estimation, as the poet prudentlie saith:

Charior est auro non simulata fides.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When king Edward had thus gotten into the ci|tie of Yorke, he made such meanes among the citi|zens, that he got of them a certeine summe of mo|nie; and leauing a garison within the citie contrarie to his oth, for feare least the citizens after his depar|ture, might happilie mooue some rebellion against him, he set forward the next day toward Todcaster, a towne ten miles from thence, belonging to the earle of Northumberland. The next day he tooke his waie toward Wakefield and Sendall, a castell and lordship belonging to the inheritance of the dukes of Yorke,The marques Montacute suffereth king Edward to passe by him. leauing the castell of Pomfret vpon his left hand, where the marques Montacute with his armie laie, and did not once offer to stop him.