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Compare 1577 edition: 1 But to speake further of things ordered and doone at this parlement holden at Northampton, R. Houed. Diuision of circuits for iustices iti|nerants. the king by common consent of his Nobles and other states, diuided his realme into six parts, appointing thrée iustices itinerants in euerie of them, as here follow|eth, Hugh de Cressie, Walter Fitz Robert, and Ro|bert Mantell, were deputed vnto Northfolke, Suf|folke, Cambridgeshire, Huntingtonshire, Bedford|shire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire: Hugh de Gundeuille, William Fitz Rafe, and William Basset were appointed to Lincolnshire, Notinghamshire, Derbishire, Staffordshire, War|wikeshire, Northamptonshire, and Leicestershire: Robert Fitz Bernard, Richard Gifford, Roger Fitz Remfrey, were assigned to Kent, Surrey, Hamp|shire, Sussex, Berkshire and Oxfordshire: William Fitz Stephan, Berthram de Uerdon, Thurstan Fitz Simon were ordeined to Herefordshire, Glocester|shire, Worcestershire, and Salopshire: Rafe Fitz EEBO page image 98 Stephan, William Ruffe, and Gilbert Pipard were put in charge with Wilshire, Dorsetshire, Summer|setshire, Deuonshire & Cornwall: Robert de Wals, Ranulf de Glanuile, and Robert Pikenet were ap|pointed to Yorkeshire, Richmondshire, Lancashire, Copeland, Westmerland, Northumberland, and Cumberland.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The oth of the iustices.The king caused these iustices to sweare vpon the holie euangelists, that they should kéepe his assi|ses which he first had ordeined at Clarendon, and af|ter had renewed here at Northampton, & also caused all his subiects within the relme of England to kéepe and obserue the same.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Ger. Dor. Moreouer at this councell, king Henrie restored vnto Robert earle of Leicester all his lands, both on this side the sea, and beyond, in maner as he held the same fiftéene daies before the warre. To William de Albenie earle of Arundell, he gaue the earledome of Sussex. About midlent, the king with his sonne and the legat came to London, where at Westmin|ster a conuocation of the cleargie was called, but when the legat was set, and the archbishop of Can|turburie on his right hand as primat of the realme, the archbishop of Yorke comming in,The presum|ptuous de|meanor of ye archbishop of Yorke. and disdaining to sit on the left, where he might séeme to giue prehe|minence vnto the archbishop of Canturburie (vn|manerlie inough indeed) swasht him downe, mean|ing to thrust himselfe in betwixt the legat, and the archbishop of Canturburie. And where belike the said archbishop of Canturburie was loth to remooue, he set his buttocks iust in his lap, but he scarslie touched the archbishops skirt with his bum, when the bishops and other chapleins with their seruants stept to him, pulled him away, and threw him to the ground, and beginning to lay on him with bats and fists, the arch|bishop of Canturburie yeelding good for euill, sought to saue him from their hands. Thus was verified in him that sage sentence,

Pub. Mim.Nunquam periculum sine periculo vincitur.
The archbishop of Yorke with his rent rochet got vp, and awaie he went to the king with a great com|plaint against the archbishop of Canturburie: but when vpon examination of the matter the truth was knowne, he was well laught at for his labour, and that was all the remedie he got. As he departed so be|buffeted foorth of the conuocation house towards the king, they cried out vpon him;
Go traitor that did|dest betray that holy man Thomas, go get thee hence, thy hands yet stinke of bloud.
The assemblie was by this meanes dispersed, and the legat fled and got him out of the waie, as he might with shame enough, which is the common panion and waiting-woman of pride, as one verie well said,
Pub. Mim.Citò ignominia fit superbi gloria.

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