Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now to leaue forren matters, and to returne home into England: Ger. Dor. we find, that on the second of December, the monks of Canturburie chose to their archbishop Reignold bishop of Bath, who within fif|teene daies after his election, departed this life, and lieth buried at Bath. Also this yeare, or (as Ger. Dor. saith) in the yeare following, the bishop of Durham sought meanes to withdraw his subiection from the archbishop of Yorke,Strife be|twixt y^e arch|bishop of York and the bishop of Durham. for which attempt the archbi|shop of Yorke, vpon trust of the popes grant, did not excommunicate the said bishop, notwithstanding that he appealed to the popes consistorie three seue|rall times, putting his owne matter and his chur|ches to be examined and tried by the pope, wherevp|on he obeied not the excommunication: and signifi|eng the cause vnto Rome, obteined such fauour, that the pope and his cardinals reuersed the sentence, and iudged the excommunication to be of none effect. And further they decreed, that if the archbishop of Yorke had broken the altars and chalices, as infor|mation was giuen, in which the bishop of Durham had celebrated after his appeale made to the court of Rome, that then should the said bishop of Durham be acquited from owing any subiection to the said archbishop for so long as they two should liue to|gither.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 True it is, that the archbishop had not onelie bro|ken the altars and chalices which the bishop had vsed in déed for the celebration of masse, but also held his owne brother Iohn earle of Mortaigne for excom|municate, bicause he had eat and dronke in compa|nie of the said bishop, and would not communicate with him, till he came to receiue absolution, and to make satisfaction for his fault. In the end the bishops of Lincolne and Rochester, with the abbat of Peter|burrow, were appointed by the pope to haue the hea|ring of this matter, as iudges authorised by his buls, who sat therevpon at Norshampton, vpon S. Calixt his day, where after they had heard both parties ar|gue what they could in either of their cases, they gaue a longer day, to wit, vntill the feast of the nati|uitie of saint Iohn Baptist next after, to see if by a|nie good means there might some agréement haue beene had betwixt them, or (if that could not be) that then the popes leters should stand in force as before, & the helpes of either part saued, as though no delaie had béene vsed. And to this, both parties were agree|able, speciallie at the motion of the bishop of Lin|colne.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This yeare also,Roger Lacie conestable of Chester. Roger de Lacie conestable of Chester tooke Alan de Lec and Peter de Bouencort, and vpon despite hanged them, for that being put in trust amongst other with the kéeping of the castels of Notingham and Tickhill, which he had receiued into his custodie of the bishop of Elie quandam lord chancellour, they had consented to the treason of Ro|bert de Crokeston, & Eudo de D [...]uille, which deliue|red the same castels vnto Iohn earle of Mortaigne. The same earle of Mortaigne was highlie offended for the death of those two persons, and therefore wa|sted the lands of the said Roger which lay within the compasse of his iurisdiction.