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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the meane time, after the king had got the ca|stels of Notingham and Tickhill into his hands (as ye haue heard) he called a parlement at Noting|ham, where the quéene mother sat on the right hand of him, and the archbishops of Canturburie & Yorke on the left, with other bishops, earles and barons ac|cording to their places. On the first daie of their ses|sion was Gerard de Camuille discharged of the of|fice which he had borne of shiriffe of Lincolne,Officers dis|charged. and dispossessed both of the castell & countie. And so like|wise was Hugh Bardolfe of the castell and countie of Yorke, and of the castell of Scarbourgh, and of the custodie and kéeping of the countrie of West|merland,Lieutenant|ships set on sale. the which offices being now in the kings hands, he set them on sale to him that would giue most. Hereof it came to passe, that where the lord chancellour offered to giue fiftéene hundred markes before hand, for the counties of Yorke, Lincolne and Northampton, and an hundred markes of increase of rent for euerie of the same counties,The archbi|shop of Yorke offer. Geffrey arch|bishop of Yorke offered to the king thrée thousand markes aforehand, onelie for the countie of Yorke, and an hundred markes yearelie of increase, and so had the same committed to his regiment.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer in this parlement, the king demanded iudgement against his brother Iohn, and Hugh No|uant the bishop of Couentrie and Chester,The bishop of Chester. for such traitorous and most disloiall attempts as they had made against him and his countries, and iudgement was giuen that both the said earle and bishop should haue summons giuen them peremptorilie to ap|peare, and if within fortie daies after, they came not to answer such plaints as might be laid against them, then should earle Iohn forfeit all that he had within the realme, and the bishop should stand to the iudgement of the bishops, in that he was a bishop, and to the temporall lords in that he had béene the kings shiriffe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this parlement also, in the kalends of Aprill, the king procured a subsidie to be granted to him, to wit,A subsid [...]. two shillings of euerie plough land through England, which maner of subsidie by an old name is called Teemen toll, or Theyme toll. He also com|manded EEBO page image 143 that euerie man should make for him the third part of knights seruice, accordinglie as euerie sée might beare, to furnish him foorth into Norman|die. He demanded of the moonks Cisteaux, all their woolles for the same yeare. But bicause that seemed an ouer greeuous burthen vnto them, they fined with him, as after shall appeare. The fourth day of this parlement, by the kings permission manie greeuous complaints were exhibited against the archbishop of Yorke,The archbi|shop of Yorke accused. for extortion and other vniust vexations, which he had practised: but he passed so little thereof, that he made no answer vnto their billes.

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