Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 About the same season the citizens of London found themselues greeued verie sore, Matth. Paris. Strife be|twixt the Lõ|doners and the abbat of Westminster for such liber|ties as the king granted to the abbat of Westmin|ster, to the great hinderance and decaie of the fran|chises of their citie. The maior and communaltie re|sisted all that they might against those liberties, and finallie by the good helpe and fauour of the lords, as the earles of Cornewall and Leicester, they obteined their purpose.William de Kilkennie keéper of the great seale. This yeare maister William de Kil|kennie, a sober, faithfull and learned man, was made keeper of the great seale. ¶ The same yeare vpon in|quisition made by Geffrey de Langley, one of the kings councell of transgressors in forrests and cha|ses, manie that had offended were presented, and most gréeuouslie punished by imprisonment, fines, and exceeding great amercements, and namelie in the north countrie.
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nineteenth of Maie died Robert de Lex|inton clearke,Robert de Lexinton de|parteth this
life. the which hauing continued a long EEBO page image 243 time in the office of a iudge, purchased
to himselfe great fame, and also most large possessions. But cer|teine yéeres before his death, bicause he
was diseased with the palsie, he gaue ouer that office, and drew himselfe into a quiet trade of life, so
ending his daies in praiers and dooing of almesdeeds.
The lord Hen+rie Hastings deceaseth. Robert Mus|champe. Athelmarie the kings half brother made bishop of Win|chester. The earle of Salisburie slaine by the Saracens.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the first day of October, the moone vpon hir change, appearing excéeding red and swelled, began to shew tokens of the great tempest of wind that followed,A mightie wind. which was so huge and mightie, both by land & sea, that the like had not bene lightlie knowne, and sildome or rather neuer heard of by men then a|liue. Matth. Paris. The sea forced contrarie to hir naturall course, flowed twice without ebbing, yeelding such a roring noise, that the same was heard (not without great woonder) a farre distance from the shore. Moreouer, the same sea appeared in the darke of the night to burne,The sea see|meth to burne as it had béen on fire, and the waues to striue and fight togither after a maruellous sort, so that the mariners could not deuise how to saue their ships where they laie at anchor, by no cunning nor shift which they could deuise. At Hertburne three tall ships perished without recouerie,Ships lost. Hertburne. Winchelsey. besides other smaller ves|sels. At Winchelsey, besides other hurt that was doone in bridges, milles, breakes and banks, there were thrée hundred houses, and some churches drow|ned with the high rising of the water course. The countrie of Holland beyond the sea, and the marish land in Flanders, susteined inestimable damage, and in manie other places; by reason that riuers beaten backe and repelled (by the rising of the sea) swelled so high that they ouerflowed their chanels, and much hurt was doone in medowes, bridges, milles, and houses.