Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 On Christmasse day in the night, great thunder and lightning chanced in Northfolke and Suffolke past measure, Thunder and lightening. in token as was thought of some euill to follow. ¶The king kept his Christmasse at Win|chester, but without any great port or liberalitie, for hospitalitie with him was greatlie laid aside. About this time, Guy de Lusignan the kings halfe brother came ouer into England, after his returne out of the holie land, and was of the king ioifullie receiued.Guy de Lusig+nan brother to the king. To|wards the releefe of his expenses made in that iour|nie, the king gaue him fiue hundred pounds which he got of the Iewes. Moreouer, he gaue to his brother. Geffrey the custodie of the baron Hastings lands, and so by such liberall and bounteous gifts as he be|stowed on them and other strangers, he greatlie incurred the hatred of his naturall people the Eng|lishmen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the day of the Epiphanie,The earle of Leicester re|turneth. the earle of Leice|ster came to the king in great hast out of Gascoigne giuing him to vnderstand, that the Gascoignes were reuolted in such number, that if spéedie succour were not prouided, the whole countrie would fall from the English subiection. Héerevpon the king furnished him with monie,He had of the king 3000 marks. and the earle himselfe got all that he could make of his owne reuenues, and likewise of the Umfreuilles lands, the heire whereof he had in custodie. He made no long abode, but with all speed returned, and reteined two hundred Rutters out of the duke of Brabants countries,Rutters. and with them cer|teine crosbowes. These were eger souldiers, and bloudie, but yet the Gascoignes prepared themselues to resist them all that they might: howbeit the earle put them still to the worse. Before his last returne from thence, he had raced the castell of Fronsacke flat with the ground, and likewise left desolate the castell of Egremount.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About this season, one of the kings iustices named Henrie de Bath fell in the kings displeasure,A iustice accu+sed for taking bribes. bicause he was accused that he had not exercised his office vprightlie, but to his owne priuat gaine, and peruer|ted iustice through bribes, vpon occasion of a suit mooued betwixt him and one Euerard de Trum|pington: he was appealed of falshood and treason by Sir Philip Darcie knight. His wife was of kin to the Bassets and Samfords, the which procured him great freendship at the hands of the earle of Corne|wall, and of Iohn Mansell, and other of the kings councell. But for all that they could doo, he was in great danger to haue lost his life at the parlement holden that yeare, and begun on the sixtéenth day of Februarie. For the king was so sore mooued against him, that he caused proclamation to be made, that if any man had any thing to laie against the said Hen|rie de Bath, they should come foorth, and their infor|mation should be heard. Herevpon diuerse came and presented their complaints, and amongst other, one of his owne fellowes, that was a iustice also, decla|red that he had suffered an offendor conuict, to escape vnpunished, for a bribe, which he receiued to the pre|iudice of the king, and the danger of his associats the other iustices, whereas it is required of one put in trust with the administration of lawes, to be vncor|rupt and sound in iudgement, according to this true position,

EEBO page image 244Iudicis est recti n [...]c munere nec prece flecti.