Compare 1577 edition: 1 The like did king Iohn, so that with stout stomachs and eger minds, they stood there in the field readie to trie the matter with dint of sword vpon sound of the warning-blast giuen by the trumpets. Howbeit, by the mediation of certeine graue personages, Matt. West. Matth. Paris. This truce was conclu|ded vpon All hallowes day. as well of the spiritualtie as of the temporal [...]ie, which were in good estimation with both the princes, a communi|cation was appointed, which tooke such effect, that a truce was taken betwixt them for the terme of two yeares, the prisoners on either side being released by waie of exchange: and thus the wars ceased for that time. Then king Philip returned into France, and king Iohn into England, where he landed at Portes|mouth the 12 of December.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About this time came one Iohn Ferentino (so called peraduenture A ferends,Iohn Feren [...]tino the popes legat. a common name to all the whelps of that litter, for they neuer came into the land as legats but they would be sure to carrie out with them manie large legacies and vsurped du|ties) a legat from the pope into England, and passing through the same as it were in visitation, gathered a great summe of monie; and finallie at Reading on the morow after saint Lukes day, celebrated a councell, which being ended, he caused his coffers to be packed vp and sent awaie, hasting himselfe after to depart the realme, and so taking the sea bad Eng|land farewell.The pope g [...]|ueth sentence with ye moonks against the bi|shops. About the same season also pope In|nocent confirmed the authoritie and power which the prior and moonks of Canturburie had to elect and choose the archbishop of that see, giuing sentence a|gainst the suffragans which claimed a right to be ioined with the said prior and moonks in the election,Sée Matt. Pa|ris pag 28 [...]. in the printed copie. as by a letter directed to the same suffragans from the said pope it may more plainelie appeare.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this it chanced that king Iohn remembring himselfe of the destruction of the citie of Angiers, which (bicause he was descended from thence) he had before time greatlie loued, began now to repent him, in that he had destroied it, and therefore with all spéed he tooke order to haue it againe repaired,King Iohn repaireth the citie of An|giers. which was doone in most beautifull wife, to his great cost and expenses, which he might haue saued, had not his foolish rashnesse driuen him to attempt that, where|of vpon sober aduisement afterwards he was asha|med. But what will not an ordinarie man doo in the full tide of his furie; much more princes & great men, whose anger is resembled to the roring of a lion, e|uen vpon light occasions oftentimes, to satisfie their vnbrideled and brainesicke affections, which carrie them with a swift and full streame into such follies and dotages as are vndecent for their degrées. Her|to assenteth the poet, saieng,
— magni regésque ducésqueMal. Pal [...] suo cap.Delirant saepe, & vitiorum peste laborant,Stultiti [...]sque suis saepe vrbes exitio dant,Imperiúmque sibi miserorum caede lucrantu [...].