Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Then he led him from Bainards castell by Cheape to Barking; and so returned by Watling street a|gaine: during which time there was shot out of the Tower a woonderfull peale of ordinance. But he would not enter into the Tower, bicause as ye haue heard before he had aduowed not to enter the for|tresse of anie forren prince, [...] in the which a garrison was mainteined. From London the king brought him to Richmond, where manie notable feates of armes were prooued both of tilt, turnie, and barriers. In the meane season the erle of Suffolke, perceiuing what hope was to be had in forreine princes, and trusting that after his life to him once granted, king Henrie would breeflie set him at his full libertie, was in maner contented to returne againe into his natiue countrie.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When all pacts and couenants betweene the kings of Englaend and Castile were appointed, concluded, and agreed; king Philip tooke his leaue of king Henrie, yeelding to him most heartie thanks for his high cheere and princelie interteinment. And being accompanied with diuers lords of England, he came to the citie of Excester, and so to Falmouth in Cornewall, and there taking ship sailed into Spaine, where shortelie after he died being thirtie yeares of age. He was of stature conuenient, of countenance amiable or bodie somewhat grosse, quicke witted, bold and hardie stomached. The tempest that he suffered on the sea was huge, and woonderfull also vpon the land, insomuch that the violence of the wind blew downe an eagle of brasse, being set to shew on which part the wind blew, from a pinacle or spire of Paules church, [...] and in the falling, the same eagle brake and battered an other eagle that was set vp for a signe at a tauerne doore in Cheapeside.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon men that were giuen to gesse things that should happen by marking of strange tokens,Prodigious tokens or acci|dents haue their issue in truth. déemed that the emperour Maximilian, which gaue the eagle, should suffer some great misfortune: as he did shortlie after by the losse of his sonne, the said king Philip. ¶And suerlie these prodigious accidents are not to be omitted as matter of course; for they haue their weight, and shew their truth in the issue. Examples in this booke be diuerse, among which one is verie memorable, mentioned in the thirtie & ninth yeare of Henrie the sixt. At what time the duke of Yorke making an oration to the lords of the parle|ment, for the iustifieng of his title to the crowne,Sée pag. 657. it chanced that a crowne which hoong in the middle of the nether house (to garnish a branch to set lights vp|on) without touch of man or blast of wind suddenlie fell downe. About which season also fell downe the crowne which stood on the top of Douer castell. Which things were construed to be signes that the crowne of the realme should some waie haue a fall; and so it came to passe.