Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king hauing ended his businesse with the French king, returned into England, and came to London the morrow after S. Ualentines day. And about seuen or eight daies after, the lord Edward his eldest sonne returned also, and hearing that the barons were gone to the marshes of Wales (where ioining with the Welshmen, they had begun to make warre against the kings freends, and namelie against his lieutenant Roger lord Mortimer, whome they had besieged in the castell of Wigmore) the lord Edward therevpon, with such power as he could get togither, marched thitherwards to raise their siege: but the lord Mortimer perceiuing himselfe in dan|ger, fled priuilie out of the castell, and got to Hereford, whither the prince was come. The barons inforced their strength in such wise that they wan the castell. Nic. Triue [...]. Castels got|ten by prince Edward. Prince Edward on the other side tooke the castels of Haie and Huntington that belonged vnto the earle of Hereford yoong Henrie de Boun.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The castell of Brecknoc was also deliuered into his hands, which he béetooke to the kéeping of the lord Roger de Mortimer, with all the territorie thereto belonging. Robert earle of Darbie that tooke part with the barons, besieged the citie of Worcester, and tooke it by the old castell,Worcester taken. sacked the citizens goods, and constreined the Iewes to be baptised. The citie of Glocester also was taken by the barons: but prince Edward following them and reparing the bridge o|uer Seuerne, which the barons had broken downe af|ter they were come ouer, he entred the castell of Glo|cester with his people. The next day by procurement of Walter bishop of Worcester, a truce was taken betwixt prince Edward and the barons that had ta|ken the towne, during the which truce the barons left the towne, and the burgesses submitted themselues vnto prince Edward: and so he hauing the castell and towne in his hands, Matth. We [...]. The citie of Glocester [...] couered, and put to fin [...]. imprisoned manie of the burgesses, & fined the towne at the summe of a thou|sand pounds. Then he drew towards his father li|eng at Oxford, or at Woodstoke, gathering people to|gither on ech hand.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane time the lords drew towards Lon|don,The cõmo|ners of the citie of Lon|don agree with the barons. R. Fabia [...] . and the new assurance by writing indented was made betweene the communaltie of the citie and the barons, without consent of any of the rulers of the citie. The commoners herewith appointed of them|selues two capteins, which they named constables of the citie, that is to saie, Thomas Piwelsoon & Ste|phan Bukerell, by whose commandement and [...]olling of the great bell of Paules all the citie was warned to be readie in harnesse, to attend vpon the said two capteins. About the beginning of Lent the consta|ble of the towre sir Hugh Spenser, with the said two capteins, and a great multitude of the citizens and o|thers went to Thistlewor [...]The manor [...] Thistleworth spoiled. and there spoiled the ma|nour place of the king of Almaine, and then set it on fire, and destroied the water milles, and other com|modities which he there had. This déed was the cause (as some haue iudged) of the warre that after insued.The chéef [...] cause that [...] the K. of [...]|maine so [...] against the barons. For where before this time the said king of Almaine had beéne, by reason of the alliance betwixt him and the earle of Glocester, continuallie an intreater for peace, he was now euer after this time an vtter enimie vnto the barons, and vnto their side, so farre as laie in his power.