The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 66)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the second yeare of his reigne, king Henrie went to Yorke,

Anno Reg. 2. The king go|eth into the north.

The castell of Scarborough Wil. Paruus. Nic. Treuet. The death of the kings son William.

and in that countrie tooke into his hands diuers castels which had béene long in possessi|on of priuate men; namelie, the castell of Scarbor|rough, which William earle of Albemarle held, and now was constreined to resigne it vp, full sore a|gainst his will. This yeare William the kings el|dest sonne departed this life, and was buried at Rea|ding. The realme of England was brought on all sides into verie good quiet; but yer long, word came to K. Henrie,Geffrey the kings brother rebelleth. that his brother Geffrey had begun a rebellion on the other side of the sea. For their father Geffrey (when he died) left thrée sonnes behind him, Henrie, Geffrey, and William, ordeining by his te|stament, when Henrie should haue gotten possession of England and Normandie, that then the countrie of Aniou should remaine vnto Geffrey, and in the meane time, he to haue these three townes, Chinon, Lodun, and Mirabell, to mainteine his estate; and when the time came that the whole heritage should fall vnto him, he [...]ight by possession of these thrée haue a readier meane to come by all the rest. Fur|thermore, fearing least his eldest sonne Henrie (who as then was absent) would not consent to the perfor|mance of this his will, Wil. Paruus. he caused certeine bishops and other of the Nobles to sweare, that they should not suffer his bodie to be committed to buriall, till his sonnes had sworne to fulfill his last will and te|stament in all other things, but especiallie in this be|halfe, wherin he iudged not amisse. For though Hen|rie was loth to take his oth, yet bicause his fathers bodie should not remaine vnburied, he was conten|ted to sweare.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But after he had obteined the kingdome of Eng|land, his couetous desire, increasing still with abun|dance alreadie obteined, found meanes to procure of pope Adrian the fourth (who was an Englishm [...]n borne) a dispensation for that oth:Pope Adrian an Englsh|man borne. A dispensatiõ for an oth. Nic. Treuet. wherevpon (hauing got licence to depart from the office both of right, law and equitie) neglecting his fathers ordinance, he passed ouer into Normandie, and making war a|gainst his brother the said Geffrey, easilie expelled him out of those places, which were assigned him by bequest in his fathers testament, and so tooke the earledome of Aniou into his owne possession. How|beit, he gaue vnto his said brother a pension of a thousand pounds English, & two thousand pounds of the monie of Aniou, with the towne of Lodun, and certeine other lands to liue vpon; who neuerthelesse thinking himselfe euill vsed at the kings hands, re|belled and died.

¶ Here we haue to note the lacke of conscience and religion, not onlie in the pretended successor of Peter in giuing a dispensasion for an oth, but also in his good ghostlie sonne, who was no lesse forward in reuolting from his oth, than the other was willing to acquite him from the force thereof. But if these men had beene profiting scholers in the vniuersitie of the pagans, as they were arrand truants and ranke dullards in the schoole of christians, they might haue learned by profane examples, that as oths are not to be rashlie taken, so they are not to be vnaduisedlie broken. Herevnto alludeth Aristotle in his Meta|physikes, shewing the cause why poetrie hath feig|ned that the gods in old time vsed to sweare by wa|ter, as Iupiter is reported to haue doone in this manner;

—per flumina iuro

Infera sub terra Stygio labentia luco.Ouid. Met. lib. 1. fab. 6.