Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king hauing knowledge as well of the arri|uall of his enimies, as also of the reuolting of his EEBO page image 30 subiects, raised his campe, and came to lodge neere vnto his enimies, the better to perceiue what he at|tempted and purposed to doo. They were also in ma|ner readie to haue ioined battell, when diuers Noble men that owght good will to both the brethren, and abhorred in their minds so vnnaturall discord, began to entreat for peace, Wil. Malm. Simon Dun. Hen. Hunt. which in the end they concluded vpon, conditionallie that Henrie (who was borne after his father had conquered the realme of Eng|land) should now enioy the same, yeelding and pai|eng yeerelie vnto duke Robert the summe of iij. M. marks. Prouided, that whose hap of the two it shuld be to suruiue or outliue, he should be the others right and lawfull heire, by mutuall agreement. Conditi|onallie also, that those English or Normans, which had taken part either with the king or the duke, should be pardoned of all offenses that could be laid vnto them for the same by either of the princes. There were twelue Noble men on either part that recei|ued corporall othes for performance of this agrée|ment, Hen. Hunt. Wil. Thorne. Matth. West. Geruasius Dorober. which being concluded vpon in this sort, duke Robert, who in his affaires shewed himselfe more credulous than suspicious, remained with his brother here in England till the feast of S. Michaell, and then shewing himselfe well contented with the compositi|on, returned into Normandie. In the second yeare of this kings reigne, the Quéene was deliuered of hir daughter Maud or Mathild, so called after hir owne name, who afterward was empresse, of whom yée shall heare by Gods grace anon in this historie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king being now rid of forren trouble, was shortlie after disquieted with the seditious attempts of Robert de Belesme earle of Shrewsburie, Simon Dun. Robert de Belesme earle of Shrews|burie. sonne to Hugh before named, who fortified the castell of Bridg [...]north, and an other castell in Wales at a place called Caircoue, and furnished the towne of Shrewsburie, with the castels of Arundell & Ticke|hill (which belonged to him) in most substantiall ma|ner. Moreouer he sought to win the fauour of the Welshmen, by whose aid he purposed to defend him|selfe against the king in such vnlawfull enterprises as he ment to take in hand. But the king hauing an inkeling whereabout he went, straitwaies proclai|med him a traitor, wherevpon he got such Welshmen and Normans together as he could conuenientlie come by, with whom and his brother Arnold, he en|tred into Staffordshire, which they forraied and wa|sted excéedinglie,Stafford wasted. bringing from thence a great bootie of beasts and cattell, with some prisoners, whom they led foorthwith into Wales, where they kept them|selues as in a place of greatest safetie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king in the meane time with all conuenient spéed raised a power, first besieging the castell of A|rundell,Arundell ca|stell besieged. and then planting diuerse bastillions before it, he departed from thence, and sending the bishop of Lincolne with part of his armie to besiege Ticke|hill,Bridgenorth besieged. he himselfe went to Bridgenorth, which he enui|roned about with a mightie armie made out of all parts of his realme: so that what with gifts, large promises, and fearefull threatnings, at the last he al|lured to his side the fickle Welshmen, and in such wise wan them, that they abandoned the earle, and tooke part against him. Anno Reg. 3. Wherevpon the king within 30. daies subdued all the townes and castels (which he held) out of his hands,The earle of Shrewsburie banished the realme. and banished him the relme, and shortlie after confined his brother Arnold for his traitorous demeanour vsed against him, whereby their attempts were brought vnto an end.