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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 King Edward hauing got this victorie, Edw. Hall. refreshing himselfe and his people a while at Barnet, returned the same daie vnto London, like a triumphant con|queror, leading with him king Henrie as a captiue prisoner: & so making a solemne entrie at the church of saint Paule, offred his standard. The dead bodies of the earle and marques were brought to London in a coffin, & before they were buried, by the space of thrée daies laie open visaged in the cathedrall church of S. Paule, to the intent that all men might easilie perceiue, that they vnfeinedlie were dead. The com|mon brute ran, that the king was not so ioious of the erles death, as sorowfull for the losse of the marques, whom he full well knew (and no lesse was euident to other) to be his faithfull friend and well-willer; for whose onelie sake, he caused both their bodies to be buried with their ancestors in the priorie of Bissam.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the tuesdaie in Easter wéeke came know|ledge to king Edward,Quéene Mar+garet landeth with a power out of France that quéene Margaret the wife of king Henrie, with hir sonne prince Edward was landed vpon Easter day at Weimouth in Dor|setshire, accompanied with Iohn Longstrother prior of saint Iohns, commonlie called lord treasuror of England, who went ouer into France to fetch them: also the lord Wenlocke, a man made onelie by king Edward, beside diuerse other knights and esquiers, of whome part had béene long foorth of the realme, and part newlie gone ouer thither to them, in com|panie of the lord treasuror. They tooke their ships at Hunflue, the foure and twentith of March (as before you haue heard) but through contrarie winds and tempests, they were driuen backe, and constreined to abide for conuenient wind.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now, although it came sometimes about sit for their purpose, yet it continued not long in that end; so as if therevpon they tooke the sea at anie time, they were forced to returne backe againe to land yer they could passe halfe the way ouer. And thus being diuerse times vnder saile, in hope to passe the seas hi|ther into England, they were still driuen backe a|gaine, till the thirtéenth of Aprill being Easter éeuen; on which day the wind comming fauorablie about, they tooke the seas, and sailed forward towards this land. The countesse of Warwike, hauing a ship of ad|uantage, arriued before the other at Portesmouth, and from thence she went to Southhampton; mea|ning to haue gone to Weimouth, where she vnder|stood that the quéene was landed: but here had shee knowledge of the losse of Barnet field, and that hir husband was there slaine.The countesse of Warwike taketh sanc|tuarie. Wherevpon she went no further towards the queene, but secretlie got hir ouer the water into the new forrest, and tooke sanctuarie within the abbeie of Beaulieu.

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