Compare 1577 edition: 1 After long treatie,A marriage concluded be|twixt the K. of Englands sonne & the K. of Spaines daughter. by the diligence of the said am|bassadors, a full conclusion followed of their motion. And whereas the king of England had giuen and as|signed the dominion of Gascoigne to his said sonne the lord Edward, the king of Spaine in the instru|ment that conteined the couenants of the marriage, resigned and quite claimed all the right and title within Gascoigne which he had or might haue by the gift of king Henrie the second, and by confirmation of the kings, Richard and Iohn. In this meane while, the townes and castels which the rebels held, were won and deliuered into the kings hands, and here|with followed a great dearth in the kings armie, so that a hen was sold for six pence sterling,A dearth in the kings campe. a pound weight in bread was at two pence or three pence, a gallon of wine at two shillings, a coome of foure bu|shels of wheat at twentie shillings, so that a knight with his esquire, and coistrell with his two horsses, might scarse be competentlie found for two shillings in siluer. Wherefore the king to relieue his people there with him on that side the sea, sent the prior of Newbourgh with other into England, to cause pro|uision of vittels and other necessaries to be conueied and brought vnto him into Gascoigne, and so there was a great quantitie of graine and powdred flesh taken vp and sent awaie with all conuenient spéed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The earle of Leicester came to the king, bringing with him out of France where he had remained for a time; a faire companie of souldiers and men of warre to the kings aid, and was verie courteouslie receiued. The Gascoignes then perceiued the kings power to increase, and saw how not onelie the castels wherein they trusted to haue refuge were wo [...]ne and gotten out of their hands by the king of England, but also that their vines (wherein chéeflie consisted their hope of sustentation) were burned vp and de|stroied, EEBO page image 249 they began to humble themselues, and so by little and little returned to their due obedience,The Gas|coigns begin to humble themselues. after that the authors of their seditious tumults were ei|ther apprehended, or chased out of the countrie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The bishop of Chichester Richard Witz and Grosted b. of Lincolne depart this lifeThis yeare died Richard Witz the bishop of Chi|chester, a man of great vertue and singular know|ledge. Also that famous clearke Robert Grosted bi|shop of Lincolne departed this life on the day of S. Denise in the night, at his manor of Bugdon, whose learning coupled with vertue and vprightnesse of life wan to him perpetuall commendation.The praise of Grosted. He was a manifest blamer of pope and king, a reproouer of prelats, a corrector of moonks, a director of preests, an instructor of clearkes, a susteinor of scholers, a prea|cher to the people, a persecutor of incontinent liuers, a diligent searcher of the scriptures, a contemnor and a verie mallet of such strangers as sought pre|ferment in this realme by the popes prouisions: in housekeeping liberall, in corporall refection plenti|full, and in ministring spirituall food, deuout and god|lie affected: in his bishoplike office diligent, reue|rend, and neuer wearied: a singular example of a bi|shop, speciallie in those daies, and at whose life our re|formed bishops may fetch light to abandon their darkenesse, and to amend that which is amisse in them, sith

Validiora sunt exempla quàm praecepta,

Leo papa.Et pleniùs docemur vita quàm verbo.