Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Furthermore, Polydor. king William perceiuing that by his cruell and couetous gouernment, sundrie of his subiects did dailie steale out of the realme, to liue in forreine countries, he published a proclamation, charging that no man should depart the realme without his licence and safe-conduct.A proclamati|on that none should depar [...] the realme. Hereof it is thought, that the custome rose of forbidding passage out of the realme, which oftentimes is vsed as a law, when occasion serueth. Soone after, he went against the Welshmen, whom he vanquished in battell néere to Brecknocke, and slue Rees their king, who had doone much hurt within the English borders, Ran. Higd. Rées king of Wales slaine. when he was their incamped. This Rise or Rées was the last king that reigned ouer the Welshmen, as au|thors affirme: for afterwards, though they often|times rebelled, yet the kings of England were repu|ted and taken as supreme gouernors of that part of the Iland. Moreouer, to haue the countrie the better in quiet, he did cut downe their woods, Wil. Thorne. and builded manie castels and piles in places conuenient, by meanes whereof they were somewhat tamed, and trained in due time to obedience, though not at the first, nor in the daies of sundrie of his successors.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Hauing thus finished his iournie into Wales, Malcolme king of Scotland came vnto Glocester to sée the king,Malcolme king of Scots commeth to Glocester. Wil. Malm. Polydor. and to common with him of sundrie matters touching the peace betwixt both the realms, as he returned homewards: but bicause king Wil|liam disdained to enterteine him in such pompous maner as he expected and made account of; and for|somuch as he did not at the verie first admit him to his presence, the said Malcolme returned into Scot|land in great displeasure, and immediatlie raising a power, entred into England,K. Malcolme inuadeth England. destroieng the country vnto Alnewike castell, where he was so enuironed with an ambushment laid by Robert earle of Nor|thumberland, EEBO page image 21 that he and his eldest sonne Edward were slaine. At which mishap his whole host being vtterlie discomfited, fled out of the field, with the losse of manie, whereof some were slaine, and some taken by pursute. Simon Dun. Thus came king Malcolme to his end (by the iust prouidence of God) in that prouince which he had wasted and spoiled at fiue seuerall times, as first in the daies of king Edward, when earle Tostie was gone to Rome; the second time, in the daies of Wil|liam Conquerour, when he spoiled Cleueland; third|lie, in the same Conquerours daies, whilest bishop Walkher possessed the see of Durham, at what time all the countrie was spoiled and forraied, euen to the riuer of Tine; fourthlie, about the fourth or fift yeare of the reigne of this William Rufus, at which time he entered the land as farre as Chester in the stréet, whilest king William was in Normandie; the fift time was now, when he lost his life on saint Brices day, by the hands of a verie valiant knight named Morkell. King Malcolme being thus surprised by death, his bodie was buried at Tinmouth (as in the Scotish histories more plainelie appeareth) where al|so ye may find, how the sonnes of king Malcolme were aided by king William Rufus to obteine the crowne of Scotland, wherevnto they were interes|sed; whereas otherwise by the force and practise of their vncle Donald they had béene kept from the scepter and crowne of the kingdome.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Ran. Higd. This yeare England and Normandie were sore vexed with mortalitie both of men and beasts, Anno Reg. 7. 1094 inso|much that tillage of the ground was laid aside in manie places, Ran. Higd. Wil. Malm. Simon Dun. Death & mur|ren of cattell. Strange woonders. Matth. Paris. Polydor. by reason wherof there folowed great dearth & famine. Manie grizelie and hideous sights were seene also in England, as hosts of men figh|ting in the aire, flashes of fier, stars falling from hea|uen, and such like strange wonders. About this time new occasions of breach of amitie grew betwixt the king and his brother Robert, who accused him of periurie, for not obseruing the articles of the last peace concluded betwixt them: wherefore he purpo|sed to saile ouer into Normandie, Simon Dun. and so came vnto Hastings, about the first of Februarie, where he so|iourned for a time, and caused the church of Battell abbeie to be dedicated in the honour of S. Martin. He depriued Herbert bishop of Thetford of his bi|shops staffe, bicause he meant to haue stolne awaie secretlie to Rome, and there to haue purchased abso|lution of pope Urban for his bishoprike, which he had bought of the king for himselfe; and likewise for the abbasie of Winchester, which he had purchased for his father, paieng for them both a thousand pounds.