Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The next daie Richard Marshall hauing thus got the victorie, destroied certeine houses and lordships there in the marshes which belonged to the said Iohn of Monmouth. Matth. Paris. About the same time also, Richard Sward with other outlawes destroied the possessi|ons belonging to the earle of Cornewall beside Bre|hull, and burned a place there called Segraue, where Stephan de Segraue the lord chiefe iustice was borne, and likewise a village belonging to the bishop of Winchester, not farre from Segraue aforesaid. This was the maner of those outlawes, that they hurt no person, but onelie those councellers about the king by whom they were exiled, and therefore bea|ring stomach against them, they did not onlie excogi|tate but also execute this reuenge; which till they had obteined, they were no lesse ill appaid, than well plea|sed when the same was past, for

—minuit vindicta dolorem.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Immediatlie within the octaues of the Epithanie, the earle Marshall and Leolin prince of Wales wa|sted and robbed all the marshes betwixt Wales and Shrewsburie,A part of the towne of Shrewsburie burnt. Polydor. a part of which towne they also burnt. King Henrie being hereof certified as yet soiour|ning at Glocester, was sore troubled in his mind, and calling togither his councell, asked aduise what waie he might best take to redresse such iniuries. Af|ter sundrie opinions amongst them declared, they a|greed all in one sentence, that it should be most expe|dient to appease the minds of the rebels with gentle offers, to grant them pardon of their offenses, wise|lie to winne them to tractablenesse, and not rough|lie afflicting them to exasperat their fiersenesse, sith,

—saepe acri potior prudentia dextra.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Also to banish from his court diuerse that bare great rule, and namelie Peter the bishop of Win|chester, and his sonne or nephue Peter de Riuales, by the counsell of which two persons all things had béene changed in the kings house. Moreouer, to put from him such strangers as bare offices, and to re|store Englishmen againe to the same.