[1] The king (as the [...]ame went, but h [...]w [...] I know not) had giuen by charter vnto the [...] Hugh de Boues, the whole countrie of Northfolke, so that he ment to haue expelled the old inhabitants, and to haue peopled it with strangers. But whether this was so or not, sure it is that he was verie sorowfull for the losse of this [...] and aid which thus perished in the seas, though it happened verie well for his sub|iects of England, that should haue béene fore oppres|sed by such multitude of strangers, which for the most part must néeds haue liued vpon the countrie, to the vtter vndooing of the inhabitants wheresoeuer they should haue come.