Compare 1577 edition: 1 This yeare manie woonderfull things happened, for besides the sore winter, which passed any other that had beene heard of in manie yeares before, both for continuance in length and extreame coldnesse of frosts,Great tem|pests. there followed grifelie tempests, with thun|der, lightning, and stormes of raine, and haile of the bignesse of hens egs, wherewith much fruit & great store of corne was perished, beside other great hurts doone vpon houses and yoong cattell. Also spirits (as it was thought) in likenesse of birds and foules were séene in the aire flieng with fire in their beaks, wherewith they set diuerse houses on fire: which did import great troubles yer long to insue, and follo [...]|ed in déed, as shall appeare hereafter.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 With this entrance of the yeare of our lord 1203, king Iohn held his Christmasse at Caen, where not hauing (as s [...]me writers say) sufficient regard to the necessarie affaires of his wars, Matth. Par [...]. he gaue his [...]ind to bankettin [...], and passed the time in pleasure with the queene his wife, to the great gréefe of his lords, so that they perceiuing his retchlesse demeanour (or as some write, the doubtfull minds of the Nobilitie which serued on that side, and were readie dailie to reuolt from his obedience) withdrew their dutifull hearts from him, and therefore getting licence, re|turned home into England.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this meane time the French king, Anno Reg. 5. to bring his purpose to full effect, entred int [...] Normandie, wasted the countries, and wan the townes of Cowches, Matth. Paris. Polydor. The French king inuadeth Normandie. le Ual de Rueil, and Lis [...]e Dandel [...] Le Ual de Rueil wis giuen ouer without any great inforcement of assault, by two noble men that had charge thereof, the one named Robert Fitz Walter, and the other Saer de Quin [...]ie. Howbeit Lisle Dandele was valiantlie for a certeine time defended by Roger de Lacie the conestable of Chester. But at length they within were so constreined by famine and long siege, that the said Lacie and others perceiuing it to be more honourable for them to die by the sword, than to starue through want of food, brake out vpon their enimies, and slue a great sort of the Frenchmen,Roger de La|cie conestable of Chester taken. but yet in the end they were taken prisoners, and so these fortresses came into the French kings hands.