Compare 1577 edition: 1 This doone, he hasted to Canturburie, where he promised to receiue the crosse of a pilgrime to go in|to the holie land, and to render vp the crosse of his legatship, which he had vsurped a yeare and a halfe after the death of pope Clement, to the preiudice of the church of Rome, and to the detriment and great hinderance of the English church. For there was not any church within the realme,The print of the legats crosse. which had not béene put to fine and ransome by that crosse, nor any ecclesia|sticall person went frée, but the print of the crosse ap|peared in him and his purse. From Canturburie he EEBO page image 132 got him to Douer to his brother in law, and finallie séeking means to passe ouer into France, and doub|ting to be discouered,The bishop of Elie late lord chancellour disguiseth himselfe in womans apparell. he apparelled himselfe in wo|mans raiment, & got a web of cloth on his arme, as though he had beene some housewifelie woman of the countrie: but by the vntowardlie folding and vncunning handling of his cloth (or rather by a lewd fisherman that tooke him for an harlot) he was suspected and searched so narrowlie, that by his pri|uie members he was prooued to be a man,He is be|wraied. and at length knowne, attached, and committed to prison, after he had beene reprochfullie handled by them that found him, and by the wiues of the towne, in such vnséemelie apparell.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Earle Iohn not ye bishops fréend.Earle Iohn would haue had him punished, and put to some open reproofe for his passed tyrannicall dooings; but the bishops, and other of the barons, for reuerence of his order, procured his deliuerance, with licence to passe ouer into Normandie where he was borne. Thus was the bishop of Elie a man full of pride and couetousnesse ouerthrowne with shame, and receiued for his hie climing a reprochfull downe|fall: for none are more subiect to ruine and rebuke, than such as be aloft and supereminent ouer others, as the poet noteth well, saieng:
Ouid. lib. [...]. de rem. am.Summa petit liuor, perflant altissima venti,Summa petunt dextra fulmina missa Iouis.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 In time he was deposed from his office of being chancellour, and not without warrant, for in verie deed, Matth. Paris. king Richard hauing receiued aduertisements from the lords and peeres of the realme, of the chan|cellours presumptuous and hautie demeanour, with wrongs offered to diuerse persons, wrote to them a|gaine as followeth.