Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Radulphus de Di [...]eto. His care to haue iustice dulie ministred in his realme was exceeding great, insomuch that finding how the shirifes were rather inclined to seeke their owne gaine, than to deale vprightlie with his sub|iects, he appointed other officers to haue a regard to their dooings, as if they had béene controllers, that they knowing how there were such appointed to haue a sound ouersight in their dealings, might be the more circumspect in their duties. He ordei|ned also punishments for hunters in forrests and grounds of warren, either by fining them, or by im|prisonment.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, he ordeined that murtherers should suffer death by hanging: and so for other transgres|sours he appointed other kinds of punishments, as some to be condemned to exile, and other to losse of lims, &c: according to the qualitie of the offense com|mitted. And to haue the lawes dulie executed, and iustice vprightlie ministred on all hands, he was so carefull that he tried all orders of men, in placing them in roomes of iustice. And lastlie, trusting to find among the cleargie such as would not be cor|rupted with bribes, nor for respect of feare or freend|ship decline from right iudgement, he chose foorth the bishops of Winchester, Elie,Bishops cho|sen principall iustices. and Norwich to be principall iustices of the relme, so as they might end and determine all matters, except in certeine cases reserued to the hearing of the prince himselfe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 His vices were these, as they are remembred. In time of aduerse fortune no man could shew himselfe more courteous, gentle, méeke,The vices of K. Henrie. and promising more largelie than he would. But when fortune once be|gan to smile, no man was more sharpe, hard to deale with, nor more redie to breake his promise and faith. He was also partlie noted of couetousnesse: for al|though he was liberall towards souldiers and stran|gers, yet was he streict inough towards his owne people, and namelie towards his sonnes, which cau|sed them to estrange themselues and their good wils from him. He was not so zealous toward the execu|tion of right and equitie as to the furtherance of his owne priuat commoditie.