Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane time, when it was bruted through the realme of England, that the pope had released the people & absolued them of their oth of fidelitie to the king, and that he was depriued of his gouerne|ment by the popes sentence, by little and little a great number both of souldiers, citizens, burgesses, capteins and conestables of castels, leauing their charges, & bishops with a great multitude of preests reuolting from him, and auoiding his companie and presence, secretlie stale awaie, and got oue [...] into France.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Notwithstanding that diuerse in respect of the popes cursse and other considerations them [...], Matth. West. Matt. Paris. otherlie refused in this manner to obeie king Iohn, yet there wer [...] manie others that did take his Part, [...] the noble men that cõtinued true vnto K. Iohn. and mainteine his quarell verie earnestlie, as his brother William earle of Salesburie, Alber [...]ke de [...]eere erle of Oxford, Geffrey Fitz Peter lord chéefe EEBO page image 176 iustice of England, also thrée bishops, Durham, Winchester, and Norwich, Richard de Marish lord chancellour, Hugh Neuill chiefe forrester, William de Wroshing lord warden of the ports, Robert Uei|pount and his brother Yuan, Brian de Lisle, Geffrey de Lucie, Hugh Ballioll, and his brother Barnard, William de Cantlow and his son William Fulke de Cantlow, Reginald de Cornehull shiriffe of Kent, Robert Braibrooke and his son Harrie, Philip de Louecotes, Iohn de Bassingborne, Philip March, Chatelaine of Notingham, Peter de Maulley, Ro|bert de Gaugy, Gerard de Athie and his nephue In|gelrand, William Brewer, Peter Fitz Hubert, Tho|mas Basset, and Foulks de Brianta Norman, with many other, too long here to rehearse, who as fautors and councellors vnto him, sought to defend him in all causes, notwithstanding the censures of the church so cruellie pronounced against him; knowing that they were bound in conscience to sticke to him, now speciallie in this generall apostasie of his péeres and people. For they were opinioned, that it was

Ouid. lib. 2. de Pont.Turpe referre pedem, nec passu stare tenaci,

Turpe laborantem deseruisse ratem.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The same yeare king Iohn held his Christmasse at Windsor and in the Lent following, on midlent sundaie being at London, he honoured the lord Alex|ander sonne and heire to the king of Scots, with the high order of knighthood. And (as I find it mentio|ned by some writers) wheras he vnderstood how there were diuerse in Scotland, Bernewell. that contemning their na|turall lord and king by reason of his great age, king Iohn went thither with an armie to represse the re|bels, and being come thither, he sent his men of war into the inner parts of the country, who scowring the coasts, tooke Guthred Macwilliam capteine of them that moued sedition, whom king Iohn caused to be hanged on a paire of gallowes. This Guthred was descended of the line of the ancient Scotish kings, and being assisted with the Irishmen and Scots that fauoured not the race of the kings that presentlie reigned, wrought them much trouble, as his father (named Donald) had doone before him, sometime se|cretlie vnder hand, and sometime againe by way of open rebellion.