Compare 1577 edition: 1 This did shée, to the intent that by the open decla|ration of these fained phantasies, the people might be persuaded to giue credit, and beléeue that he was the true begotten sonne of hir brother king Edward. And after this, shee assigned to him a gard of thirtie persons in murrie and blew, and highlie honoured him as a great estate,Perkin n [...]|med by the dutches of Burgognie the white ro [...]e of England. and called him the white rose of England. The nobilitie of Flanders did to him all reuerence. [All which port and pompe exhibited in most solemne sort, he was well content to take vpon him, forgetting the basenesse of his birth, and glori|eng in the counterfeit title of honour:149 [...] much like the iay that would be called a swan, or like the crow that trimming hir selfe with the stolne feathers of a pecocke, would séeme Iunos bird; as the poet saith:

—mentito nomine cygnumM. Pal. [...]

Graculus appellat sese, cornicula plumas

Pauonis furata cupit pauo ipsa videri.

¶In this yeare was one Hugh Clopton maior of London, and of the staple, a gentleman, Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 865. borne at Clopton village,Stratford bridge vpon Auen builded halfe a mile from Stratford vpon Auen by north, who continued (during his life) a ba|cheler: he builded the great and sumptuous bridge of Stratford vpon Auen, at the east end of the towne. This bridge hath fouretéene great arches, and a long cawsie with smaller arches, all made of stone, new walled on each side. At the west end of the bridge, he builded a faire large chappell. Toward the south end of that towne, & néere vnto the same, a pretie house of bricke and timber, where he laie, and ended his life. He glased the chancell of the parish church in that towne, and made a waie of foure miles long, three miles from Alesburie towards London, and one mile beyond Alesburie.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But to returne to Perkin:Such long and looked for alterati [...]n of states. the brute of whome in England, blowne throughout the realme, sore dis|quieted the people, insomuch that not onelie the mea|ner sort, but also manie of the nobles and worshipfull personages beléeued and published it abroad, that all was true which was reported of him. And not onelie they that were in sanctuaries, but also manie other that were fallen in debt, assembled in a companie, and passed ouer the seas into Flanders, to their coun|terfeit duke of Yorke, otherwise rightlie named Perkin Warbecke. Truelie the realme of England EEBO page image 777 was in maner diuided (with the rumor and vaine fable spred abroad of this twise borne duke) into par|takings and contrarie factions.False rumors [...]casions of great disqui|etnes. And some of the no|ble men conspired togither, purposing to aid the fore|said Perkin, as the man whome they reputed to be the verie sonne of king Edward; and that the matter was not feigned, but altogither true, iust, and not imagined of anie malicious pretense or euill pur|pose.