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Compare 1577 edition: 1 All which matters being determined (as the state of the time present required) the pope besought the king to be good vnto archbishop Thurstane,The pope is a sui [...]er for Thurstan [...]. and to restore him to his sée: but the king protested that he had vowed neuer so to doo whilest he liued. Where vn|to the pope answered, that he was pope, and by his a|postolike power he would discharge him of that vow, if he would satisfie his request.The pope of| [...]ereth to dis|charge the K. of his vow. The king to shift the matter off, promised the pope that he would take aduice of his councell, and giue him further knowledge, as the cause required, wherevpon depar|ting from thense, Eadmerus. The kings answer sent to the pope. he did afterwards (vpon farther de|liberation) send him this message, in effect as fol|loweth.

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Whereas he saith he is pope, and will (as he said) assoile me of the vow which I haue made, if contra|rie thereto I will restore Thurstane to the sée of Yorke: I thinke it not to stand with the honor of a king, to consent in any wise vnto such an absolution. For who shall beléeue an others promise hereafter, if by mine example he sée the same so easilie by an abso|lution to be made void But sith he hath so great a desire to haue. Thurstane restored, I shall be conten|ted at his request, to receiue him to his sée, Simon Du [...] Eadmerus with this condition, that he shall acknowledge his church to be subiect vnto the sée of Canturburie, as his predeces|sours haue doone before him; although in [...] this offer would not seru [...] the turue.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now to returne againe to the two princes. Not long after the departure of the pope from G [...]i|sors, Simon Dun. Anno Reg. [...]1. Foulke earle of Anio [...] found meanes to make an agréement betwixt king Henrie & king Lewes, EEBO page image 41 so that William sonne to king Henrie did homage vnto king Lewes for the duchie of Normandie.The kings of England and France are accorded. Wil. Malm. And further it was accorded betwéene them, that all those that had borne a [...]mour either on the one side or the o|ther, should be pardoned, whose subiects soeuer they were. Eadmerus. In like maner, Rafe archbishop of Cantur|burie returned into England, after he had remai|ned long in Normandie, bicause of the controuersie betwixt him and Thurstan archbishop of Yorke, as is aforesaid.

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