Shortlie after Dauid did send his brother Griffin vnto the king, and other pledges for himselfe, for per|formance of the said articles, whom the king sent foorthwith to the towre of London, there to be safelie kept, allowing to Griffin a noble a daie for his fin|ding. And within few dais after Michaelmas, Matth. Pari [...]. page, 765. prince Dauid comming to the kings court did his homage, and swore fealtie, who for so dooing, and in that he was the kings nephue, was sent home againe in peace. When Griffin saw how all things went, and that he was not like to be set at libertie, he began to deuise waies and meanes to escape out of prison.

Wherefore deceiuing the watch one night, he made a long line of hangings, couerings, and shéets, Matth. Paris page, 830. and hauing gotten out at a window, let downe himselfe by the same from the top of the towre: but by reason that he was a mightie personage and full of flesh, the line brake with the weight of his bodie, and so falling downe headlong of a great height, his necke and head was driuen into his bodie with the fall: whose miserable carcasse being found the morow after, was a pitifull sight to the beholders. The king being certi|fied thereof, commanded Griffins sonne to be better looked vnto, and punished the officers for their negli|gence.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About the same time there chanced a controuersie to rise betwixt the king and the bishop of Lincolne, for the bestowing of the benefice of Thame, the which Iohn Mansell the kings chapleine had gotten in pos|session by the kings fauour,Iohn Ma [...]sell. through prouision gran|ted of the pope, where the bishop alleging priuileges to the contrarie, had granted it to an other. At length the king hauing his fathers trouble before his eies, and doubting the bishops words, threatning some e|uill mishap to follow, if he should stand long in the matter against the said bishop, gaue ouer his te|nour: and therewithall prouided Iohn Mansell of a farre more rich benefice, that is to saie, of the perso|nage of Maidstone, whereinto the bishop spéedilie in|uested him.