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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Polydor. Dauid was made knight by K. Henrie as Houeden hath.After this the king held his Easter at Winsor, whither William the Scotish king came with his brother Dauid, to welcome him home, and to con|gratulat his happie successe in his businesse on the further side the seas. They were honorablie entertei|ned, and at their departure princelie rewarded. The king thus returned into England, punished the shi|riffes of the land very gréeuouslie for their extortion, briberie,A prudent considera|tion of the king. and rapine. After this, studieng how to as|sure the estate of the realme vnto his sons, vpon good consideration remembring that no liuing creature was more subiect to the vncerteintie of death than Adams heires, and that there is ingraffed such a fer|uent desire in the ambitious nature of man to go|uerne,Mans nature ambitious. that so oft as they onee come in hope of a kingdome, they haue no regard either of right or wrong, God or the diuell, till they be in possession of their desired prey: he thought it not the worst point of wisedome to foresee that which might happen. For if he should chance to depart this life, and leaue his sons yoong, and not able to mainteine wars through lacke of knowledge, it might fortune them through the ambition of some to be defrauded and disappoin|ted of their lawfull inheritance. Theref [...]e to pre|uent the chances of fortune, he determined whilest he was aliue to crowne his eldest sonne Henrie, being now of the age of 17. yeares, and so to inuest him in the kingdome by his owne act in his life time: which deed turned him to much trouble, as after shall ap|peare.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Being vpon this point [...] called togither a parlement of the lords both sp [...]rituall and tem|porall at London, R. Houed. and there ( [...] S B [...]rtholomew [...] daie) proclaimed his said sonne Henrie fellow [...] him in the kingdome, whom after this on the [...] following,Henrie the son crowned the 18. of Iulie saith Matth. Paris. being the fouretéenth daie of Iune 1 [...]70. Roger archbishop of [...] to the manner, being [...] the king. This [...] a [...]erteined [...] of Canturburie, but bicause he was [...] the realme, the king appointed the archbishop of Yorke to doo it, which he ought not to haue doone without li|cence W. Paruus. of the archbishop of Canterburie within the precinct of his prouince (as was [...]lledged by arch|bishop Becket) who complained thereof vnto pope Alexander, and so incensed the pope, that he being highlie moued by his letters, for bad not onelie the archbishop of Yorke, but also Gilbert bishop of Lon|don,The archb. of Yorke is for|bidden the vse of the sacra|ments. and Iocelin bishop of Salisburie (who were pre|sent at the coronation) the vse of the sacraments, which made king Henrie far more displeased with the archbishop Thomas than he was before.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Upon the daie of coronation,

Matt. Paris Polydor.

The king be|came seruitor to his sonne.

king Henrie the fa|ther serued his sonne at the table as sewer, bringing vp the bores head with trumpets before it, according to the maner. Whervpon (according to the old adage,
(Immutant mores homines cùm dantur honores)
the yoong man conceiuing a pride in his heart,Honours change ma|ners. be|held the standers-by with a more statly countenance than he had béen woont. The archbishop of Yorke, who sat by him, marking his behauior, turned vnto him, & said;
Be glad my good sonne, there is not an other prince in the world that hath such a sewer at his ta|ble.Yong men set vp in dignitie easilie forget themselues. To this the new king answered, as it were dis|dainefullie, thus: Why doost thou maruell at that? My father in dooing it, thinketh it not more than be|commeth him, he being borne of princelie bloud onlie on the mothers side, serueth me that am a king borne hauing both a king to my father, and a queene to my mother. Thus the yoong man of an euill and per|uerse nature, was puffed vp in pride by his fathers vnseemelie dooings.

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