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Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this, when by sending of messengers to and fro, aswell bishops, abbats, and other, both spirituall persons and temporall, there could no agréement be made, he directed his letter to certeine churches here in England, pronouncing by a certeine day, namelie the twelfe day of September, a sentence of inter|diction to be obserued through the relme. The monks of Canturburie sore offended herewith, before the prefixed day of this sentence to be put in vre, sent two moonkes of their owne house, Nigell and Absolon, vnto the pope: whose errand when the pope had vn|derstood, he commanded them to returne home, and to obeie their archbishops sentence in all things.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane time the archbishops men and te|nants were sore oppressed, and his rents and reue|nues seized to the kings vse, yea euen before the daies of paiment. Which maner of proceeding sore gréeued the archbishop: in so much that departing from S. Omers, he came to Graueling, and there ta|king the sea, crossed ouer to a towne called Goseford that belonged vnto Hugh Bigot erle of Northfolke: which earle receiued him with great honour, and sent him all necessarie prouision, so long as he remained in his countrie. At the terme appointed, he interdic|ted all the kings dominions, and would not reuoke the sentence, till Robert bishop of London, Hilarie bishop of Chichester, and William bishop of Nor|wich, with manie other Noblemen, came to him vn|to Framelingham in Northfolke, a castell appertei|ning to the said earle, where at length an attonment was concluded betwixt him and the king: wherevp|on he was brought home vnto Canturburie with great ioy and honor.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 He accused the moonks of Canturburie, for diso|beieng the interdiction, trusting that the pope would not heare those two moonkes whom they had sent, as he did not indéed. He excommunicated also all those that had receiued the sacraments amongst them, du|ring the time of the interdiction. Now these moonkes being at their wits end, dispatched with all speed o|ther two moonkes to the pope, to obteine an absoluti|on, before the archbishop should vnderstand it: but they were sent backe againe with checks, and com|manded to obeie their archbishop in all things, as the other were, which had béene there with him be|fore.

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