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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Theft and pickerie.6 Sixtlie, that if any man were taken with theft or pickerie, and thereof conuicted, he should haue his head polled, and hot pitch powred vpon his pate, and vpon that, the feathers of some pillow or cushion shaken aloft, that he might thereby be knowne for a theefe, and at the next arriuall of the ships to any land, be put foorth of the companie to seeke his aduen|ture, without all hope of returne vnto his fellowes.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 These were the statutes which this famous prince did enact at the first for his nauie, which sithens that time haue been verie much inlarged. About the same time Iohn Bishop of Whiterne in Scotland, suffra|gane to the church of Yorke, ordeined Geffrey arch|bishop of Yorke, Wil. Paruus. préest. At the same season also the e|lection of the same Geffrey was confirmed by pope Clement, who among other things that he wrote to the chapiter of Yorke on his behalfe, in the end he addeth these words:

We doo therefore admonish you all, and by the apostolicall bulles command you, that you exhibit both reuerence and honour vnto him as vnto your prelat, that thereby you may appeare com|mendable both before God and man.
Giuen at La|teran in the nones of March and third yeare of our gouernment.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Whilest these things were in dooing, there came into France legats from the said Clement, to mooue the two kings to make all the spéed possible towards their iourneie, bicause of the great danger wherein things stood in Palestine, requiring present helpe. Herevpon king Richard (his men and prouision be|ing readie) commanded that his ships should set for|ward, Polydor. King Richard set forward on his iourneie. Rog. Houed. & to coast about by the streicts of Giberalter|re to come vnto Marseilles, where he appointed to méet them, and so with a chosen companie of men he also set foorth thitherwards by land, and comming to Towrs, receiued the scrip and staffe as a pilgrime should, at the hands of the archbishop there.

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