Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About this time, and on the morrow after the na|tiuitie of saint Iohn Baptist, R. Houed. The bishop of Elie. the bishop of Elie lord chancellour arriued in England, not shewing him|selfe in any statelie port (for he tooke vpon him nei|ther the dignitie of chancellour nor legat, nor yet of iustice) but onelie as a simple bishop and messenger sent from the king. The quéene mother, the archbishop of Rouen, and such other as had gouernment of the land, hearing of his comming, met him at saint Al|bons, where he shewed to them the emperours let|ters, conteining the agreement made betwixt him and king Richard, and withall appointed certeine lords & barons to go with him at his returne backe to the king, as Gilbert bishop of Rochester, Sifrid bishop of Chichester, Bennet abbat of Peterborow, Richard earle of Clare, Roger Bigot earle of Nor|folke, Geffrey de Saie, and diuerse other. It was also ordeined at this same time, that the monie ga|thered towards the paiment of the kings ransome should remaine in custodie of Hubert bishop of Sa|lisburie, Richard bishop of London, William earle of Arundell, Hameline earle of Warren, and of the Maior of London, vnder the seales of the quéene mother, and of the archbishop of Rouen.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶But sée the hap of things, whilest ech one was thus occupied about the aforesaid monie; Anno Reg. 5. Wil. Paruus. it chanced that king Richard was at the point to haue béene deliue|red into the hands of his deadlie aduersarie the French king, as hereafter you shall heare, noting by the waie the dangerous estate of princes, the mani|fold distresses whereinto by sinister fate (as well as the inferior & rascall rout of common drudges) they be driuen. For what greater calamitie, what grée|uouser hartach, what more miserable casualtie could haue happened vnto a bondman, than to be deliuered to and fro from the hand of one enimie to another, to be bought and sold for monie, to stand to the courte|sies of forren foes, of a king to become a captiue? whervnto the poet did right well allude, when he said,
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Compare 1577 edition: 1 EEBO page image 140The emperour vpon displeasure conceiued against the bishop of Liege, which latelie had atteined to that benefice contrarie to the emperours pleasure, who wished the same rather to an other person,The bishop of Liege mur|thered. hired cer|teine naughtie fellowes to go into France, where the bishop remained for feare of the emperours ma|lice, and there to find meanes traitorouslie to slea him, which they accordinglie did, by reason whereof the duke of Louaigne that was brother to the bi|shop, and other of his kinsmen, vpon knowledge had thereof, meant to haue made the emperour warre, in reuenge of that murther: insomuch that the empe|rour, to haue the French kings aid against them, was minded to haue deliuered K. Richard vnto him.