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Compare 1577 edition: 1 All which things throughlie considered, with ma|nie other as they were laid afore him by right wise and circumspect persons, which in this behalfe had conference with him, he consented that by some se|cret waies and meanes a reconciliation might be had betwixt him and his brethren, the king and the duke of Glocester. The which to bring to some good and full effect, these honorable personages following became dealers therein. First of all the duches of Yorke their mother, the duches of Excester, and the duches of Suffolke their sisters; the lord cardinall of Canturburie, the bishop of Bath, the earle of Essex; but most speciallie the duches of Burgognie their sister also, and diuerse other right wise and prudent personages, who wrought by mediation of certeine preests, and others,Préests vsed for priuie messengers. such as they vsed for messengers betwixt them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Finallie, by the earnest trauell and diligence shew|ed by the said duches of Burgognie (who incessantlie sent to and fro such hir trustie messengers now to the king being on that side the seas, and then to the duke remaining héere in England) at length they were made fréends,K. Edward and his bro|ther of Cla|rence recon|ciled vnwit|ting to the earle of War|wike. and a perfect agréement concluded and ratified, with assurance betwixt them so strong|lie as might be. To the furthering whereof the kings chamberlaine the lord Hastings failed not to doo his best, so as by his good diligence, it was thought the king was the sooner induced to with to ioine eft|soones in true fréendship with his said brother of Clarence. And as it well appeared, the duke of Cla|rence acquitted himselfe faithfullie therein.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 For hearing now that his brother king Edward was landed and comming forward towards Lon|don, he gathered his people, outwardlie pretending to passe with them to the aid of the earle of War|wike against his brother:The dissimu|lation of the duke of Cla|rence. although inwardlie he meant the contrarie, and so accompanied with aboue foure thousand men, he marched foorth towards the place where he thought to find his brother. King Ed|ward being then at Warwike, and vnderstanding that his brother of Clarence approched, in an after|noone issued foorth of that towne with all his forces, and passed on till he came into a faire large field thrée miles distant from Warwike towards Banburie, where he might behold his brother of Clarence in good arraie of battell, comming towards him.

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