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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The messenger sent backe with thanks, & some se|cret instruction of the protectors mind, yet met him a|gaine with further message from the duke his master within few daies after at Notingham: whither the protector from Yorke with manie gentlemen of the north countrie, to the number of six hundred horsses, was come on his waie to London-ward, & after se|cret méeting and communication had, eftsoones de|parted. Wherevpon at Northampton, the duke met with the protector himselfe with thrée hundred hors|ses, and from thense still continued with him part|ner of all his deuises; till that after his coronation, they departed (as it séemed) verie great fréends at Glocester. From whense as soone as the duke came home, he so lightlie turned from him, and so highlie conspired against him, that a man would maruell whereof the change grew. And suerlie, the occasion of their variance is of diuerse men diuerselie repor|ted.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Some haue I heard say, that the duke a little be|fore his coronation,Causes of the duke of Buc|kingham and K. Richards falling out. among other things, required of the protector the duke of Herefords lands, to the which he pretended himselfe iust inheritor. And forso|much as the title, which he claimed by inheritance, was somwhat interlaced with the title to the crowne by the line of king Henrie before depriued, the pro|tector conceiued such indignation, that he reiected the dukes request with manie spitefull and minato|rie words. Which so wounded his heart with hatred and mistrust, that he neuer after could indure to looke aright on king Richard, but euer feared his owne life; so far foorth, that when the protector rode through London toward his coronation, he feined himselfe sicke, bicause he would not ride with him. And the other also taking it in euill part, sent him word to rise, and come ride, or he would make him be caried. Wherevpon he rode on with euill will, and that not|withstanding on the morow, rose from the feast, fei|ning himselfe sicke, and king Richard said it was doone in hatred and despite of him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And they said, that euer after continuallie, each of them liued in such hatred and distrust of other,The duke of Buckingham and king Ri|chard mistrust each other. that the duke verelie looked to haue beene murthered at Glocester: from which nathelesse, he in faire maner departed. But suerlie some right secret at that daie denie this: and manie right wise men thinke it vn|likelie (the déepe dissembling nature of both those men considered, and what néed in that gréene world the protector had of the duke, and in what perill the duke stood, if he fell once in suspicion of the tyrant) that either the protector would giue the duke occasion of displeasure, or the duke the protector occasion of mistrust. And verelie, men thinke, that if king Ri|chard had anie such opinion conceiued, he would ne|uer haue suffered him to escape his hands. Uerie truth it is, the duke was an high minded man, and euill could beare the glorie of another; so that I haue heard of some that say they saw it, that the duke, at such time as the crowne was first set vpon the pro|tectors head, his eie could not abide the sight thereof, but wried his head another way.

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